Word: communisme
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...Robert Welch was fed up. He had enjoyed a successful 25-year career as an executive at the James O.Welch Company (his brother founded the Cambridge candy-making firm), but that couldn't contain the concern that was gnawing at him: Communism...
...China during World War II. Chinese Communists had killed him ten days after the Japanese surrendered, and Birch was, according to Welch, "the first American to die in World War III." The society's basic philosophy holds that "The world is engaged in this war from which either Communism or Christian-style civilization must emerge with one completely triumphant and the other completely destroyed...
...make an effort to understand what a candidate represents. Reagan is popular because his ideology is "good old American," the Greek says, with more than a twinkle in his eye. In Farmington, Reagan stands for "the continued stand of the U.S. as an aggressive power and the halt of Communism...
...some rebels. Another Muslim group, Jamiat-i-Islami, is led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, 40, a former professor of religion at Kabul University. Although Jamiat is considered more tolerant than Hekmatyar's group, Rabbani has no personal following outside of his native Badakhshan province, and his proposed alternative to Communism in Kabul seems woefully quaint: bring deposed King Mohammed Zahir back from exile in Italy...
...mediating the divergent demands of students, faculty and California's conservative Regents. But as California schools were hit by the unrest that was soon to turn many a college campus into a shambles, Kerr was attacked by Governor-elect Ronald Reagan. Berkeley, Reagan claimed, was a "hotbed of Communism and homosexuality." In 1967 Kerr was fired. The same year he joined Carnegie...