Word: communisme
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...ABOUT A DECADE, DEMOCRACY HAS BEEN ON A roll. The revolution began in Latin America, as one junta after another gave way to an elected civilian government. Then, with the collapse of Soviet communism, people power spread to Eastern Europe and much of Eurasia. In several areas of Africa and the Far East too, despotism and minority rule are on the defensive or in retreat...
...morning in America anymore, but in Europe, with communism spent and the trans-Channel tunnel imminent, there is still just enough of the ; upward-and-onward spirit to produce a real old-fashioned (that is, circa 1970) fair in Seville -- although, in line with recent fashion, it is not called a world's fair but Expo...
Before an audience of about 45 people in Boylston Hall, Abul Ahsan said South Asian leaders are concerned about the effect of the consolidation of the European Community, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the fall of communism in Eastern Europe...
...nearly half a century, the U.S. had two paramount tasks: containing the spread of communism and preventing a nuclear war. Sometimes American Presidents conducted military operations against Soviet surrogates and allies, notably in Korea and Vietnam; sometimes they engaged in diplomacy with their Kremlin counterparts, particularly on arms control. These were the hard and soft dimensions of the same global mission. Maintaining the right balance between the two required a degree of rational public discourse that is almost ) always missing in U.S. election campaigns, which tend to be nasty, brutish and long. When the defining issue in the national debate...
...pattern emerged. When the cold war turned hot and Americans who had been sent abroad to fight communism came home in coffins, challengers assailed the President from the left, accusing him of bellicosity and offering themselves as champions of the soft option. At other times, when Americans were not directly involved in a shooting war but were worried about the Red menace, the most potent political attacks on the man in the White House usually came from the right; he was faulted for being too accommodating or insufficiently vigilant or both...