Word: communisme
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...dictator. Somoza was brought to power by the marines in the early '30s and enjoyed Washington's consistent support. Somoza, a fervent capitalist who, like his son, never hesitated to use the state apparatus to augment his personal fortune, was logically enough fervently anti-communist. Given Somoza's anti-communism, Nicaragua's strategic position in the heart of Central America, and the possibility of building a second transisthmian canal through Nicaraguan territory, the U.S. was more than happy to prop up the Somoza regime both militarily and economically...
Demarest, one of TIME'S most versatile writers and a man who has handled assignments from De Gaulle to gourmet cooking, was as impressed as his companion by the Chinese he saw, calling the country "Communism with a smile." Mike remembers Mydans working day after day as if he wanted to capture that expression on a a billion faces. "Carl chased around China like a mountain goat," says Demarest. "He was patient, inexhaustible and, above all, unflappable...
Pope John Paul II does not seem likely to ease the Church's traditional opposition to communism, however. Although as a cardinal in Poland the pontiff adopted a policy of practical co-existence with Communist authorities in that country, he has found plenty of ground to criticize the theoretical basis of Marxism...
...strategy of "anti-communism" is a cover for American institutions to stifle economic nationalism abroad, Chomsky said. These institutions, chiefly multinational corporations and the federal government, are willing to go to war to keep foreign markets open, he said...
...help. The successful dissident movement, as in Poland, is continually riding a tiger--pushing the regime hard enough to extract comcessions, but not so hard as to provoke repression. And in most countries there is no immediate prospect of overthrowing the regime, or even of achieving Dubcek's "Communism with a human face." If Carter and Brezinski really wish to aid the cause of human rights, they must be continually aware and finely tuned to the complex pattern of national realities in Eastern Europe. Rhetoric must be backed up by hard-headed knowledge of local situations--how far economic pressures...