Word: communisme
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...recognize Gorbachev | as a world leader, the first to say she could do business with him, and that gave him the ammunition to approach others like Reagan and convince them he was a man to be trusted." Newspapers in Eastern Europe lamented Thatcher because of her unwavering stand against communism and her insistence on human rights. From Britain's partners in the 12-nation European Community, tributes were almost invariably accompanied by the comment that Thatcher had needlessly obstructed the movement toward greater European political union...
...wider pattern of recent violence in eastern Germany, including football riots and beatings of foreigners by gangs of proto-Nazi skinheads. Many officials attribute the troubles to rising unemployment and a collapse of local authority -- dangerous new problems that are the dark side of East Germany's liberation from communism...
...Five years after Kent State," Fallows wrote, "it is clear how the war could have lasted so long. Johnson and Nixon both knew that the fighting could continue only so long as the vague, hypothetical benefits of holding off Asian communism outweighed the immmediate, palpable domestic pain. They knew that when the screaming grew too loud and too many sons had been killed, the game would be over. That is why...our reluctance to [be drafted] helped prolong...
With decisions no longer driven by opposition to communism, America can increase human rights consideration in foreign policy. And the State Department has taken this opportunity in Southeast Asia, where the U.S. is finally moving toward peace with the Vietnamese, 45 years after its initial involvement there...
...work. All over Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, women have dreamed, says Poland's Minister of Culture and Arts, Izabella Cywinska, "of reaching the point where we have the choice to stay home." That, more than a place in the power structures -- more than anything else -- is what communism deprived them of, and what they want to retrieve...