Word: communisme
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...overturned former president Bush's China policy to grant a nation guilty of flagrant human rights violations MFN trade status. Even if this can be excused as an attempt to introduce the Chinese to capitalism (and thereby, inevitably to coerce the fall of one of the lasting bulwarks of communism), it must still be recognized as an abandonment of the principles which Americans hold dear. Our attempt to create a "favorable investment climate" in China by "exporting democratic values" may be an effective tool for bringing China's relationship with communism to an end, but at what ideological price...
...subdue and slaughter Timorese resisters and civilians was readily sold to Indonesia. Diplomatic support for the invasion was also forthcoming. Kissinger, fresh from needlessly prolonging the Vietnam War and encouraging the murderous Christmas bombing of Hanoi, helpfully suggested that the Indonesian cruelty could be construed as containment of communism in East Timor if dissent was raised...
...Russian space program, the comeback was supposed to begin this month. Ever since the fall of communism, the agency that gave the world Sputnik, Gagarin and the space station Mir appeared to have fallen too, with slashed budgets leading to fewer launches and worried whispers in the international community that even those missions were dangerously underfinanced. Lately, however, Russia has been funneling all its space resources into the launch of its Mars '96 probe, an unmanned spacecraft designed to orbit the Red Planet, dispatch a quartet of landers to the surface and, perhaps most important, return the country...
...boozehound's liver; three would make it to the White House, grasping all of Washington's power for a moment. One President would be assassinated in Texas. Two (Johnson and Nixon) would be driven from office in disgrace, which was also, by the way, the fate of world communism...
...spirit of inflexible and unreasonable anti-communism--the hysterical spirit of McCarthyism--seems to linger on. This week the Treasury Department threatened to slap a $250,000 fine on Tom Reeves, a professor at Roxbury Community College, if he did not give up the names of nine of his students who recently traveled to Cuba. Their trip to Castro-land was organized by Reeves and capped a semester's worth of study about Cuban economic and social trends...