Word: communisme
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...fall reflects the latest Chinese attack on the ancient bureaucratic practice of dispensing jobs and favors to friends and family members. After flourishing for centuries of imperial rule, nepotism still thrives under avowedly classless Communism. Known as taizi pai, or the princes' faction, the children of leaders attend the best schools, get the best jobs and are allowed to travel abroad. "They are always one step ahead of the pack," complains a Peking University graduate student. The privileged range from Vice Premier Li Peng, 59, the adopted son of the late Premier Chou En-lai, to junior officials throughout...
...shoot-to-kill order against East German citizens who try to flee to the West. Such policies, he said at a Bonn banquet, collide with the goal of the "unity and self-determination of a free Germany." Visibly irritated, Honecker included an extemporaneous riposte in his prepared remarks. Communism and capitalism, he said, "are like fire and water...
...moderates, Reagan's tentative endorsement of the peace plan signed in August by five Central American Presidents may have seemed grudging and tepid. But to the right it sounded like the crack of doom for any effort to save Nicaragua from Communism. Some conservatives are also aghast at what they view as the Administration's headlong rush into a missile treaty with the Soviets, and in particular by its retreat from strict verification demands. Says Patrick Buchanan, once Reagan's communications director: "We are better off with 574 missiles that can land on the Soviet Union than we are with...
...James Burnham, 81, pungent conservative columnist, author (The Managerial Revolution) and apostate Trotskyist who in 1955 became a founding editorial-board member of William F. Buckley's National Review; in Kent, Conn. The Chicago-born Burnham won renown for books (The Struggle for the World, The Coming Defeat of Communism) that warned of an inevitable U.S.-Soviet confrontation. In 1983 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
...North and Poindexter, who garnered strongsupport around the country when they testified,Rudman said their actions "cannot be justified bypassion, patriotism, appropriate concern over theexpansion of communism in Central America andlegitimate display and the policies enacted byCongress...