Word: communisme
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...Mother History chose is a vigorous 76-year-old with the stature and stubbornness of a fireplug, but by no means a political dissident. He is a decorated war veteran, a believer in Communism and a well-established Soviet writer. His best-known previous book was Heavy Sand, a story about the sufferings of Jews in a Nazi-occupied Ukrainian village...
...would the activist Pope tell his authoritarian host and oppressed flock? Pinochet, 71, is one of South America's two remaining military dictators.* A practicing Roman Catholic, as are 10 million of Chile's 12 million people, he has ruled with an iron hand, claiming that the threat of Communism justified his repressive regime. Opponents accuse the government of imprisoning, torturing and killing thousands of ordinary citizens. Americas Watch, the U.S. human rights group, recently called Chile a "model of the national-security state...
...special assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Education, R.E. Baker, recently wrote a report tying bilingual education to communism and terrorism. Written for the Council for Inter American Security, the report, according to the New York Times, called bilingual education part of a plot to establish a separate Spanish nation within U.S. borders...
...must now give more weight to subjective evidence, including personal testimony about fear and harassment. But the final decision is still within the discretion of the Justice Department. Many immigration lawyers complain that its practices have been not only legally incorrect but politically biased. They charge that refugees from Communism or the Ayatullah Khomeini have a far better chance of gaining asylum than those fleeing governments that the U.S. counts as friends...
...same vision 100% of the time. There are even what he calls hybrid visions, and he applies that term to both Marxism and fascism. "The Marxian theory of history is essentially a constrained vision," he writes, "with the constraints lessening over the centuries, ending in the unconstrained world of communism." Fascism relies on several key aspects of the constrained vision, "obedience to authority, loyalty to one's people, willingness to fight," but all this under an "unconstrained leader" who feels "no obligation to respect laws, traditions, institutions, or even common decency...