Word: communisme
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower took office in 1953 determined to be more aggressive in checking the spread of Communism. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles summed up this approach when he told LIFE magazine in 1956 that "if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost." Still Eisenhower and Dulles backed away when Soviet tanks rumbled into Budapest later that year to crush the Hungarian uprising. Eisenhower contributed another idea when he invoked the domino theory in 1954 to justify U.S. economic aid to South Viet Nam. The notion that the fall of one nation to Communist...
President John F. Kennedy had come to office criticizing Eisenhower's failure to check the advance of Communism in Cuba. But Kennedy's effort to roll back Soviet influence ended in disaster in April 1961 at the Bay of Pigs. It was there that, 1,300 CIA-trained Cuban exiles failed to invade the island and spark a movement that would bring down Fidel Castro...
...Reagan suffered strains when American troops invaded Grenada, a Commonwealth member. The Prime Minister asked the President by telephone not to go through with the operation; afterward, she uttered her harshest words yet about the U.S. Said Thatcher: "If you are going to pronounce a new law that wherever Communism reigns against the will of the people the United States shall enter, then we are going to have some really terrible wars." She opposed U.S. reprisal attacks in Lebanon, where Britain had contributed 100 men to the 6,000-member Multi-National Force, and criticized Washington's decision...
Another 10% of the aid is contingent on the continued progress of El Salvador's ambitious agrarian-reform program, which both the Carter and Reagan Administrations have promoted as a bulwark against Communism. Congress will have to decide whether the constitutional provision passed last week gutted land reform, as some Salvadoran moderates and U.S. labor leaders suspect, or merely modified...
...think that that kind of mixed message only plays, in the end, in the hands of the right in El Salvador, because the right--and I would say the non-democratic, violent, and murderous right--is convinced that in the end the United States will do anything to stop communism in El Salvador--even if it means maintaining or looking the other way when the death squads run around in El Salvador like they...