Word: communisme
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...have provided just enough aid to avoid outright disaster, but not enough to resolve the crisis, so El Salvador is being left to slowly bleed to death," he declared. Conveying both anger and urgency, the President painted a harsh picture of Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan attempts to "spread Communism by force throughout the hemisphere." Alternately evoking that alarming picture and declaring the Administration's commitment to programs of longterm, peaceful economic and social assistance for Central America, Reagan implicitly justified his Administration's policy of CIA-backed warfare against Nicaragua. He summed up his challenge to Congress...
...just another example of the Reagan Administration's selective morality. We must think twice before we support the Nicaraguan contras and condemn the Salvadoran rebels. Both groups are fighting for representation in the governments of their respective countries. The difference is that one wears the mask of Communism, and the other wears the mask of democracy...
...were to repeat the first statement two more times, that should undoubtedly convince all readers that I am lying. There is something about three times denial that strikes a chord in Americans. The same odd chord is struck with the thought of Communism, which is why I hastened to add the second statement...
...Communism may not be the answer. But the existence of the Spartacus League and its derivatives magnifies the realization that the spectrum of conceivable political options should be expanded...
...McCarthyite anti-Red hysteria. For conservatives (among them President Reagan, who awarded Chambers a posthumous Medal of Freedom earlier this year), the case had a different meaning. Along with Chambers' harrowing tales of life in the Red underground and his considerable eloquence, the affair dramatized the evils of Communism and the peril its infiltration posed...