Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin was U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam from the summer of 1973 until Saigon's capture by Communist troops in April 1975. He was later criticized, most recently by former CIA Officer Frank Snepp in his book Decent Interval, for mishandling the evacuation of Americans and Vietnamese supporters from Saigon. Soon after Martin returned to Washington, he retired...
...nature of his opposition and the link between the left and the conservative clergy. In the old days it was hard to believe that a Catholic priest could become a Communist, but then it could happen that a Communist would get an order to go and become a Catholic...
...vision of Iran's future. We shall do our duty, I mean our duty to remain an independent country. And I think that our fate will have a great influence on the fate of the democratic, non-Communist countries...
When the Shah of Iran looks at a map of his region he has a nightmare vision. He sees a Communist pincer movement closing in on him from South Yemen in the south and Afghanistan in the east. He once remarked, "Whenever I get up in the morning, I always ask what happened the night before on the Arabian peninsula and in Afghanistan." The Shah is convinced that the crisis facing his nation is the result of a cunningly executed master plan conceived years ago by the Soviet Union...
WARSAW, Poland--In one of its sharpest challenges on record, the leaders of Poland's Roman Catholic Church yesterday called for the abolition of censorship in this Communist nation, calling it a "weapon of totalitarian regimes...