Word: communisme
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Solzhenitsyn's polemical essay, read by a translator as a light drizzle fell on the crowd, made enormous waves in the intellectual community. The Nobel Prize-winning writer who built his reputation declaiming the evils of communism stunned the world with a diatribe on the evils of capitalism, leaving Harvard seniors and their parents with a chilling forecast or Western Civilization's demise...
...even Trueba's stalwart anti-communism does not prevent his rapid disenchantment with the tyranny and bloodshed which follows the accession of the military leaders. In one of the book's most touching scenes he helps his granddaughter's lover, a high official in the administration of the deposed socialist President, escape sure death by smuggling him into a foreign embassy in the trunk of his chauffeured Mercedes...
...grand juries investigating the killings, which occurred when police were staking out a mountaintop television tower threatened with sabotage. The officers are also facing murder charges in a trial scheduled to start in August. During their perjury trial, they insisted that they had been fighting for democracy and against Communism. Former Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo, who had at first called the policemen "heroes," then reversed himself as they began to confess, was defeated in last November's election, in part because of the public outcry over the handling of the case...
When Pope John Paul II named 28 new cardinals from 19 different countries last week, the list reflected the Pope's concern for doctrinal orthodoxy and his opposition to Communism. Among the Archbishops elevated to the Sacred College: Miguel Obando y Bravo of Managua, Nicaragua, and Paulos Tzadua of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, each a determined critic of his country's leftist government, and Warsaw's Henryk Gulbinowicz, a supporter of Poland's outlawed Solidarity union. Also receiving red hats were two U.S. prelates whose outlooks seem cut from papal cloth: Boston's Bernard F. Law and New York City...
...backfire. White House Director of Communications Patrick Buchanan in particular has urged a confrontational style, and that approach has been accepted by Regan, who is not averse to confrontation himself. Said Regan after the contra vote: "We have an issue: Who is to blame for the spread of Communism in Central America? The Democrats are going to regret that...