Word: communisme
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...Thursday, Ford began three hours of talks over two days with visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, discussing NATO's southern flank, Communism in Western Europe and the world economic situation. Schmidt urged the President to resist pressures to withdraw U.S. troops from Europe. On Friday Ford went to Baltimore to visit Schmidt aboard the square-rigged West German ship Gorch Fock...
...form of government. We have felt the effects of America's direct and indirect, but very powerful, support for the racist and colonialist forces of southern Africa. And we have seen American power time and again being used to fight freedom on the plea that it is fighting Communism...
...obliged the Soviet leader to ac knowledge the right of all parties to "suit their tactics and strategy to specific situations in their respective countries." The Italians were jubilant. Sergio Segre, the chief of the Italian party's foreign department, said that Brezhnev's remarks meant that "Communism has stopped being a closed system...
...last month's election (TIME, July 5), also spurned Soviet-style rule for Italy. "The models of socialist society followed in Eastern Europe," he asserted bluntly, "do not correspond to the peculiar conditions and orientations of the broad popular masses in the West." He insisted that Italian Communism was committed to economic development in both the public and private sectors. Such heresies so infuriated a Soviet journalist watching the proceedings on closed-circuit TV that he turned to Nickel and tagged Berlinguer with the ultimate Communist insult. "A social democrat -the capitalists will be happy to have...
...social discipline, not a religious or tribal loyalty, and that discipline eventually all but broke down, hastening the end of the American involvement. Besides, ideological conflict is susceptible to detente, and there is something in the nature of religious war that is deeply intolerant of accommodation. The combination of Communism and nationalism is, of course, a powerful force for ideological upheaval, providing saints and messiahs-Ho Chi Minh, Mao, Castro-and an accompanying mythology and faith. There, too, the overriding faith validates any behavior on behalf of the visionary goal-which in the Marxist case must be achieved in this...