Word: communisme
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...Saudi Arabia's security, Abdullah answered, "American aid to Israel." In an implicit but stinging refutation of the Reagan Administration's notion that an anti-Soviet "strategic consensus" can be built around Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel, Abdullah said: "We hear constantly that the Soviet Union and Communism constitute the greatest danger to the Middle East. But as a friend, I tell you that you Americans constitute the greatest danger. The reason is your total alliance with Israel. The Arab masses feel abandoned by the U.S. and find it convenient to look to the Soviet Union instead...
...towards those who are already strong over those who are struggling to survive. Instead, the columnist settles for the easier "All politicians are clowns" line. Case closed. One of the few exceptions to this tendency is his clear opposition to foolhardy American adventurism abroad, particularly in response to "raging communism." Yet he balances this point of view with a childishly xenophobic portrayal of the Soviets and Chinese, who barely grasp concepts like soap and water and uniformly adhere to their government's propaganda about the outside world...
...heat. This is nothing new for DSOC. DSOC leader Michael Harrington spent the first half of the sixties making red-baiting attacks on the Students for a Democratic Society, cheering on the Bay of Pigs invasion and going all the way with LBJ in Vietnam. It is such anti-communism that has made DSOC widely known as "State Department-socialists...
...Soviets have spurted upward to challenge the U.S. for the dubious distinction of being the dominant merchant of death. But President Reagan has ended most of the restraints imposed by Jimmy Carter, in the interest of supporting any nation that satisfies his loose definition of a bastion against Communism. No longer are close allies considered the best buyers. The most cultivated customers, both for the Soviets and the Western powers, are developing countries. More than $18.3 billion in major weapons were delivered last year to the Third World? compared with $8 billion in 1975?and contracts were signed...
...Reality. The reality is that El Salvador lives under an unbearable, dictatorial oligarchy and that massacres occur there and that all this must be denounced. We believe that the prolongation of these outdated systems in Latin America is a danger for the whole world. Do we speak of Communism? That is how it is introduced! Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union. We wind up driving into the adversary camp people who are not natural adversaries...