Word: communisme
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...about 'crop failures in the Ukraine and the impact of Pope John Paul in Eastern Europe. The Soviet surge in alcoholism is also in the equation. It is more debilitating than our drug culture. It portends deep discouragement with a faltering system. Vodka has become more consoling than Communism. And the Soviet armies, for all their vaunted firepower, still have not digested Afghanistan...
...secret societies were a means of popular resistance to authority. The Mafia, for instance, came into being under feudal rule in Sicily. In the 19th century an underground society called the Carboneria fought to get rid of Austrian rule. Similarly today, in an Italy that has been threatened by Communism, neo-Fascism and terrorism, many an idealistic Italian has been tempted to join a secret group with the avowed aim of improving society. The apparent aberration of P2 aside, there are believed to be about 30,000 Masons in Italy, with more than 500 chapters, out of a worldwide body...
...House Un-American Activities Committee openly censured Harvard and several College professors for their pro-Struik actions. "History alone will show how many of Struik's students were led by him down the road to Communism," the committee said
...stern espousal of anti-Communism does conform with the Administration's foreign policy generally. Still, Lefever was not the first choice of either the State Department or the White House. His appointment was one of many made in deference to the extreme views of Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Helms, alarmed by the growing anti-Lefever fever, dropped in during the second day of testimony, and finally could not contain himself. He snarled at a witness from the National Council of Churches: "You came here as an expert on human rights, and you attack a man of fine...
...extremist idealism. Young Socialists demand full employment, a 35-hour work week and a guaranteed annual minimum wage of $9,434; the group would also curb "militarism" by creating soldiers' unions, free elections of officers and mandatory retirement of all generals currently in service. Notes Antimilitarist Coates: "Real Communism would make Brezhnev choke...