Word: communisms
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...EMPERORS by Harrison E. Salisbury (Little, Brown; $24.95). Enlivened by dozens of interviews, this narrative history of China under communism by a seasoned journalist documents the chaos and corruption of Mao Zedong's reign and the inexorable trend toward glasnost that started under Deng Xiaoping...
...Klerk, wary of the A.N.C.'s long-standing association with Communism, also wants a constitutional provision for a "market-oriented economic system." The A.N.C. opposes the provision but denies it is wedded to a plan for blanket nationalization of South Africa's biggest corporations. "There is nothing in the thinking of the A.N.C. that says we must nationalize," says Thabo Mbeki, one of the group's chief negotiators...
...Fidel Castro in fatigues and Ricky Ricardo singing Babalu. Its geography is Havana, a bad movie starring Robert Redford, and -- somewhere on the coast -- something called the Bay of Pigs. Add memories of big cigars, and white sugar, which now poses a greater threat to American health than communism. Otherwise, Cuba has been a closed port 90 miles off the U.S. coast, the plague island of the Caribbean...
This bought us time. And all we needed was time to allow the ideas of communism to fail. Radio Free Europe and other Western policies contributed to the erosion of faith in communism. But it was the ideology's fundamental flaws that doomed it to inevitable defeat...
...have the chance to advance great goods. While the communists have lost, we have not won until we prove that the ideas of freedom can provide the peoples of the former Soviet Union with a better life. We must enlist the same spirit that won the defensive battle against communism to win the offensive battle to ensure the victory of freedom. We must mobilize the West to commit the billions of dollars needed to give Russia's reforms a fighting chance to succeed...