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...Paul II did for our country. The night after he died, I lit a candle as a tribute to his 26 years of service. When I put it in the window of my flat, I saw hundreds of other candles in neighboring buildings. The Pope was instrumental in ending communism in the 1980s, and thanks to him Poland became a much better nation. That is only one of many reasons we loved him. Witold Pluta Bilgoraj, Poland The Pope is still living among Christians all over the world. It was overpowering to see how his death affected people. Perhaps those...
...Paul II did for our country. The night after he died, I lit a candle as a tribute to his 26 years of service. When I put it in the window of my flat, I saw hundreds of other candles in nearby buildings. The Pope was instrumental in ending communism in the 1980s, and thanks to him Poland became a better nation...
...they chart a course that blends communism and capitalism, China's policymakers send off a mix of policy signals: some tightening, some loosening. Last week the government announced a two-year ban on automobile imports. But authorities also moved closer to institutionalizing stock trading, a practice that has been illegal since Mao's revolution. A branch of Shanghai Investment and Trust has been authorized to oversee the buying and selling of stocks and distribution of dividends...
...Ronald Reagan, the road to his first meeting with a Soviet leader has been bumpy and twisting. Driven by a lifelong visceral anti-Communism, he campaigned for the White House in 1980 by charging that détente was "an illusion" and that the arms-limitation treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union was "fatally flawed." At his first presidential press conference on Jan. 29, 1981, Reagan set a chilly tone. The Soviets, he said, "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat" in pursuit of world domination. Only three months later, the President adopted...
...ornate state dining hall of Malacañnang Palace, the Rev. Jerry Falwell rose to salute President Ferdinand Marcos for standing tall against the specter of Communism, a compliment the right-wing U.S. evangelist had a few weeks earlier bestowed on South Africa's State President P.W. Botha. "Had it not been for the Marcos family," Falwell told an audience that included the First Couple, government supporters and officials, "the chances are that the freedoms you enjoy today would not be here." Falwell later shook his finger at the Reagan Administration for "bellyaching" about the need for financial and military reform...