Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Could it just possibly be that those who said 15 years ago that we had a moral obligation to intervene in Southeast Asia in order to prevent an oppressively totalitarian Communist regime from turning Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos into a bloody nightmare were right after...
Carter's standing in the world plunged to a new low as a result of last week's strange performance at the top in the nation that is supposed to be the economic and political leader of the non-Communist world. Accustomed to their parliamentary system, in which a Cabinet resignation signals the overthrow of a government, large numbers of Europeans even wondered whether the Carter Administration had fallen. As the week progressed, they became increasingly critical of the President. "He always acts too late and thus appears to be the victim rather than the master of events...
While gold is psychologically important, the fate of the dollar is far more vital to the U.S.−and the rest of the non-Communist countries, which use the greenback to settle most international trade deals. Even before Carter's actions last week, the dollar had been slipping, as some financially important countries, including Saudi Arabia, sold American currency from their monetary reserves in exchange for West German marks and British pounds...
Safely ensconced in his Miami Beach estate, Tacho Somoza played host to a stream of reporters, blaming "Communist elements" for his ouster. Asked about his fortune, which has been estimated at up to $500 million, the dictator-in-exile allowed that he was worth about $100 million; 80% of his fortune, he claimed, had been left behind in Nicaragua. Before sailing off on a vacation to the Bahamas, Somoza said that he planned, as a private citizen, to carry on the fight against those who ousted him. "I don't feel morally defeated," he said. "I stepped down because...
...McCarthy story is more complicated. Pearson, says Anderson, had an early tip on Alger Hiss's Communist connection but, unable to substantiate it, had turned it over to the Government. And when McCarthy needed evidence to support his wild charges of Reds in Government, Anderson gave him an unsubstantiated tip about one of Truman's speechwriters; a & amp;quot;burn of shame singed through me," he says, when McCarthy denounced the man in the Senate. In time, McCarthy turned on Pearson, who had never been a big fan of the Senator's anyway. Calling Pearson an agent...