Word: communisme
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...should not write off the possibility ofnuclear warfare simply because Communism is over,"Stent said...
Outspoken American advocates of greater efforts look back at the days when the U.S. had the stomach and pocketbook for big initiatives like the Marshall Plan and contrast that with the cheese-paring, tentative leadership Washington is providing now. James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, says that by overthrowing communism, "the Russians have done something big and heroic. They perceive us as, in effect, not responding except in petty ways. Our response has so far been hesitant in tone, trivial in content and very nearly humiliating in its effect." As one dramatic signal, Billington favors an exchange program that would...
...about seeking the presidency in 1996, this year's campaign has thrust him into the top tier of contenders, along with Dan Quayle, Jack Kemp and Texas Senator Phil Gramm. It has also exposed the historic rift between Republican moderates and conservatives, long bound together by the fight against communism. With the cold war over, the G.O.P. is awakening to the fact that the new world order may threaten the quarter- century Republican domination of the White House...
...Russian despotism inspired by a vital imperial nationalism and shorn of the baggage of the dying faith of communism could potentially be even more dangerous than the old Soviet totalitarianism...
...watershed moment for America's world role. In the cold war, we played a dramatic but defensive role in containing communism. In the immediate postwar years, we implemented a two-pronged strategy to blunt Moscow's main thrust in Europe, using military power to deter aggression and economic power through the Marshall Plan to counter the communist ideological challenge. We later beat back Soviet salients in Korea, the Philippines, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola, Afghanistan and elsewhere...