Word: communisme
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...turned aside. Perhaps the most provocative proposal of the ten days on the road was made by French President Francois Mitterrand, who urged the industrial nations to better foresee and harness new technology. Within that idea is a glimmer of the immense reality that the free world can defeat Communism only with economic vitality, not arms...
Changes in foreign policy seem certain as Argentina seeks what Lami Dozo calls "a new place in the world." However that evolves, Argentina will clearly continue to be hostile to the U.S., which before the war had been successfully wooing it as an ally in the fight against Communism in the Western Hemisphere. "There is only one loser in all this, and that is the U.S.," said an Argentine official. "We can sign a treaty with Great Britain, the enemy, and it will be over. But what do we do about the U.S., supposedly our friend? We are betrayed. Things...
...pockets of poverty. He shows us a China where party cadres and their children enjoy tremendous perks and benefits--so much for the society's supposed egalitarianism. And he shows us a Chinese people tired out by too many campaigns and shifts in the political line, their faith in communism slowly dwindling...
...Cultural Revolution, for example, has left rivers of apathy, indifference, and distrust of communism running through China. "Before the Cultural Revolution, we Chinese lived under a great illusion," one discontented daughter of intellectuals tells Butterfield. "We believed the Communists could save China and make it prosperous and strong again ...Now people have seen through this, and they have suffered a terrible loss of faith...
...well-documented. Butterfield's conclusions are not the result of one or two conversations, but of dozens of interviews, penetrating observations, and a deep understanding of Chinese traditions. He compiles an impressive array of contacts and uses them well, giving us not a blind and hateful rejection of Chinese communism, but a precise analysis of its problems...