Word: communisme
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Even as it announced the small diplomatic success, however, the Administration wanted to make sure that nobody gets the wrong idea: Reagan has not gone soft on Cuban Communism. "The conclusion of an agreement on this issue does not signal any change in U.S. policy toward Cuba," declared White House Spokesman Larry Speakes. "We are willing to talk-if Cuba shows signs it is willing to re-enter the family of nations in the Western hemisphere. So far their conduct remains totally unsatisfactory in the eyes...
...their claim to equal pay for work which, by some standard yet undeveloped, would be judged similar. Soon-to-be Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kerry has wholeheartedly endorsed the movement toward national legislation requiring businesses to institute comparable worth pay scales. The concept sounds good, but then so did Communism...
...than 30,000 Poles jammed streets surrounding the church to hear the monthly "Mass for the Fatherland" that Popieluszko began shortly before the imposition of martial law. The parish priest at St. Stanislaw Kostka, Father Teofil Bogucki, delivered a tough homily charging that 40 years after the imposition of Communism in Poland, "society is paralyzed with terror and people are worn out by hopelessness." As the subdued crowd joined in reciting prayers and singing patriotic hymns, two youths climbed the church's iron fence to put up a new banner. The message: O LORD, FORGIVE THEM. But as Jaruzelski...
Revel then asks a disturbing question: "Could Communism's expansionist strategy have succeeded so well unless the West was predisposed to succumb to it?" His answer: the success of Communism can be explained only because "the democracies themselves have adopted the Communists' image of the world and their perspective on history...
Revel offers disappointingly few cures for democracy's failing condition. Instead, he quotes Demosthenes' advice to the Athenians: "Don't do what you are doing now." Revel then tersely suggests "genuine detente," which amounts to meeting the reality of the implacable contest with Communism. Such a posture would require, he admits, "almost total Western intellectual reconversion" and "unprecedented" coordination among the democracies. Small wonder, then, that he does not expect it to happen...