Word: communisme
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...movements found more than enough to agree upon. One keynote speaker suggested that America's freedoms rest on four "boxes": the soapbox, the jury box, the ballot box and, most important, the cartridge box. The platform opposed drugs, gun control, busing, welfare, ERA, Washington, the United Nations and Communism, and endorsed police enforcement, America First and the family...
...helped to desegregate some of the country's best hotels and restaurants. He is far better known, however, for his kragdadigheid (iron-fistedness). He has defended the actions of his police to the hilt, declaring them to be "in the forefront of the fight to combat Communism [which is] infiltrating the country." Asked why the police did not use rubber bullets during the June rioting in Soweto in which 176 were killed, Kruger replied: "Rubber bullets give the impression the police have rubber guns. They cannot protect life and property with rubber guns, and I have no intention...
First there was "goulash Communism"-the term coined in the early 1960s to describe Nikita Khrushchev's insistence that Red economies satisfy consumer needs instead of concentrating only on the development of heavy industry. Now the Soviet bloc is following an even more heretical strategy that might be called credit-card Communism-the customers in this case being governments rather than individuals. Totally violating Marxist prejudices, the Soviet Union and its six economic allies in Eastern Europe* are trying to modernize their antiquated economies by borrowing heavily from their supposed class enemies, the capitalists of the West...
...word detente from his political year lexicon, the anniversary is being all but ignored. One reason is that some of NATO's initial hesitations have been justified: the gains of Communists in Southern Europe are partly attributable to the post-Helsinki mood, in which the threat of international Communism has appeared to be further diminished. Yet the West's main fear, that a Helsinki-inspired euphoria would lead to sharp cutbacks in defense spending by NATO nations, seems so far to have been unfounded...
...bureau's 20,000 employees. A former FBI official told TIME that Hoover looked on the association fund as "nothing more than a tax dodge." According to the ex-official, Hoover ordered that the proceeds (about $75,000) from his books, A Study of Communism in 1962 and J. Edgar Hoover on Communism in 1969, be turned over to the Recreation Association. "Then," said the former official, "Hoover tapped the tax-free money in the treasury for his personal expenses." Some of the money paid for Hoover's vacations in Florida and California and Christmas gifts...