Word: communisme
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...economy, not that the casual visitor to Korea would notice much sclerotic about the pace of development there. After a decade in which the old automatic warmth for the U.S. had seemed to cool - as a younger generation of Koreans, with no personal memory of the shared fight against communism, came to maturity - Lee promised to take his country's foreign relations back to its traditional bedrock, speaking of the "deep mutual trust" between the two nations and promising to "strengthen our strategic alliance with...
...National Review, Buckley lent an intellectual conscience and a new energy to a conservative movement that had long been wallowing in dour irrelevance. His greatest achievement was to serve as the demiurgic force behind the emerging conservative coalition of the 1960s and 70s, unifying Goldwater libertarianism with ardent anti-communism and the remnants of the conservative old guard. The crowning achievement of his project, of course, was the messianic rise and eventual election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency...
...modern world isn't divided between capitalism and communism; it's divided in part between nations done dealing with their secessionists and those still fighting. Sri Lanka sided with Serbia, mindful of its Tamil rebels. Even Spain opposed Kosovo's claim as a precedent that could threaten Madrid's sovereignty by encouraging separatists. What's the joke about putting all your Basques in one exit...
...million murders, and that Suharto and his soldiers were responsible. We students did not know about the killings at the time. If we heard anything bad, we refused to believe it. And if we believed it, we thought it justified. We chose what we thought was freedom against communism. Eventually, many of us changed our stance. I later called for Suharto's dismissal and was jailed for a while, and my TV talk show was banned. Suharto's New Order was precisely that: if not a police state certainly a policed one, with everything kept in check - political parties, religious...
...junta of generals in 1965, overthrowing the country's flamboyant and charismatic first president, Sukarno, whose friendship with Beijing and predeliction for Communists in the government had brought the country to the brink of economic collapse and civil war. Ensconced in power, Suharto proceeded to purge the country of Communism and anyone suspected of Communist sympathy. No one knows how many died. One estimate has it at 500,000 - among them many Indonesians of Chinese descent. The Communist Party was outlawed and Indonesian citizens banned from having Chinese names...