Word: communisme
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Just 10 minutes from Harvard Square, the country's largest liberal playground, stands the headquarters of the John Birch Society, the arch-conservative group which believes a "global conspiracy" today threatens society with worldwide communism...
...Robert Welch decided to form an information service for the American people. John Birch is an educational institution," McManus says. "We preach less government, more responsibility and, with God's help, a better world to live in. We are therefore opposed to communism, but we are just as much opposed to collectivism." McManus defines collectivism to be "big government, small people...socialism...
...Belief in a "conspiracy for power" among most of the nations of the world, a conspiracy enmeshed with a growing communist atmosphere in government and business. Communism is "built and sustained by the West...Communism is controlled and financed by the West, propagated by Wall Street...
...Deng Xiaoping's power to far from uncontested--and in the struggle after his inevitable removal or death, domestic concerns could render all predictions of a "pragmatic" foreign policy worthless. The communists have not brought stability to China. Domestically, in 35 years they have introduced four different concepts of communism, four constitutions, and three wrenching changes in government. Abroad, China was at one time a close ally of the Soviet Union and of Vietnam, but has since invaded both. Formerly on Albania's side against Yugoslavia, it has now reversed position...
...Chief Erik Amfitheatrof probably had the most delicate assignment. "Soviet citizens are usually leery of talking about the KGB," he reports. "But those willing to be interviewed provided insights available nowhere else. One person told me, 'If you walked down the street with a sign reading GLORY TO COMMUNISM, the KGB would detain you, because all unauthorized action is prohibited.' That said something very real to me about the KGB's pervasive power." In New York, on the receiving end of the gleanings from correspondents, were Senior Editor Donald Morrison, and Staff Writer John Kohan, who wrote...