Word: communisme
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...Senate voted to approve the aid, and members of the House who had voted against it the week before were ridiculed by the Administration and its lackeys as naive fools who were "soft on communism...
Brodsky, 45, is something of an international celebrity and hero. He was already an important young poet in the Soviet Union when he was charged with "social parasitism." Translation: his poetry and bohemian ways did not advance the causes of Communism. Hauling manure on a farm near the Arctic Circle did, according to the state, and in 1964 he was sent there to earn his keep. Neither the isolation nor the climate stopped him from writing. As he testified in his poem "A Part of Speech," "I was raised by the cold that, to warm my palm,/ gathered my fingers...
...suppose that there really is a Soviet functionary--call him Elliotski Abramski--whose job is to make sure that Central American governments put the interests of World Communism and the hegemonizing superpower ahead of their peoples' freedom and well-being...
Instead Reagan has engaged in a campaign of red-baiting abroad and at home. His penchant for intervention abroad threatens to destabilize the Middle East as well as Central America. His charges that congressmen who opposed the Administration's aid package to the Contras were either supporting communism, or being duped by those who do, echoed those of another great name caller, Senator Joe McCarthy, who campaigned against what he called "a conspiracy so immense" that it extended from Moscow to the heart of the U.S. government...
...satellites to their orbit. Under the so-called Reagan Doctrine, the Administration has decreed that the U.S. can no longer afford to watch passively as the Soviets consolidate their power. Through the use of surrogates and guerrilla movements, long a Soviet tactic, the Reagan Administration seeks to roll back Communism, or at least make Soviet expansionism more costly...