Word: communisme
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...novels, each in its own harrowing way, have been maps of contemporary man's journeys to the end of the night. The Hungarian writer's first book, The Case Worker (1974), charted the descent of a compassionate social worker into the degradation and suffering of Communism's underclass. His second, more ideological novel, The City Builder (1978), explored the pathways to the Utopias that have led to police terror and violence. By then it was clear that Hungary's national tragedy had cast up a major writer, in a class with West Germany's Heinrich...
DIED. Louis Aragon, 85, engaged and engaging rebel, homme des lettres and uncrowned laureate of French Communism; in Paris. A Dadaist and co-founder in 1919 of surrealism, Aragon was a decorated hero of two World Wars, revered especially for the ringing patriotism of his 1940s Resistance poems. Slim and elegant, he uncorked his rhetorical gifts irrepressibly: in art criticism, in labyrinthine, sometimes brilliant novels (The Bells of Basel, Holy Week), in often romantic poetry, but most vigorously-and to some incongruously-in essays, books and political activism championing Stalin...
...real legislation, he has appointed himself as a special Senate watchdog on presidential nominations, one who is ever on the alert for signs of ideological deviation. Early in the Reagan Administration, Helms was able to delay confirmation of a few State Department officials whom he considered squishy-soft on Communism. But once the White House pushed a bit, Reagan and the Senate rolled right over the Senator's opposition. "Helms is considered a paper tiger on the Hill," scoffs one Administration official...
...learn." But when he returned to Washington five days later. Reagan remained as set and predictable in his ways as he was before his departure. The President continues to see the region through a distorting East-West prism; countries are distinguished only by their allegiance to either capitalism or communism The real problems of Latin America--the social, economic and political inequities that affect different nations in different ways--continue to be ignored...
President Reagan wants to squeeze communism out of Latin America, a goal that even some liberals wouldn't dispute. But by pouring more guns into the area and putting undue pressure on already leftist regimes, the President is only helping to bring about the kind of radical left revolutions he so wants to avoid...