Word: communisme
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...Reagan, the region's economic strains offer a chance to continue his two-year-old Latin American crusade against communism. Past Administrational-Marxist policies have included extensive military support for the besieged right-wing government of E1 Selvador, and the concentrated use of financial and military weapons to weaken the socialist leadership of Nicaragun. And, after marking Cuba as a primary source of Marxist "trouble" in the region, Reagan effectively banned business and tourist travel to the island last Mary...
...guns or dollars to, if asked, help him discredit Marxism in public speeches. Last month, for example, the Administration sponsored a "forum for peace and democracy," at which Caribbean and Latin American allies in effect swore allegiance to capitalism and shared the President's disdain for socialism and communism. But despite all his efforts to prevail ideologically. Reagan has achieved only marginal success...
...start of the debate, Cardinal Cooke, who is also military vicar to Catholics in the armed forces, called for stronger emphasis on the righteousness of "defense against unjust aggression," more realism about Communism and more reaction from bishops in other Western nations who are "anxious about their own defense." Another conservative, New Orleans Archbishop Philip Hannan, 69, argued that his colleagues should scrap the document entirely because it ignores the evils of Soviet Communism...
...they were dealing with a political system that was not only deeply repugnant to Western values but virtually impervious to Western attempts to change it. Nevertheless, compared with Nazi Germany, "Uncle Joe" Stalin's Russia seemed by far the lesser of two evils. "I can't take Communism, nor can you," said Roosevelt to Ambassador Joseph Davies in 1941. "But to cross this bridge [i.e., beat Hitler], I would hold hands with the devil...
...inconceivable to us that Afghanistan could do any credit to the Soviet Union, let alone "Communism." The Afghans, we told each other, should be left to stew in their own juice. We could never control them, but neither could anyone else. We had our first taste of things to come in 1978. Daoud turned against the Communists who had helped him to power. Not only did he arrest the leaders of the Afghan Communist party, but he planned to execute them. The Afghan Communists were in a desperate position. They consulted the Soviet embassy in Kabul. Moscow quickly confirmed that...