Word: communists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cold grey eyes scrutinized without recognition. In a glance, a number of half-truths about totalitarian societies coalesced in my mind. For even those who travel to a communist state with an "open mind" find themselves suspicious, expecting that the reports of a police state circulated so presumptuously by the American media will prove to be true...
...ironic that the United States, which guarantees freedom of religion, should question these things when Communist Poland did not raise any objections," Foley said, referring to the Pope's eight-day visit to Poland in June...
...confrontation for the sake of confrontation. We're not trying to shove it up Moscow's nose." He stressed that "you don't want to treat this as another Cuban missile crisis," which it certainly is not. There was not even a hot-line contact between Carter and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Although the Administration to some extent triggered the uproar by briefing Church on the intelligence report, it apparently did not expect that he would use the material as forcefully as he did. Complained a top White House aide, perhaps unfairly in view of what Church...
...capital for the opening of the weeklong sixth summit of nonaligned nations. As host of the conference, Castro was seen and photographed with a wide variety of Third World leaders, ranging from Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, 87 - the last surviving co-founder of the nonaligned movement - to Communist fellow travelers like Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong to such obscure eminences as Bhutan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuk. Castro and his aides orchestrated the arrival of celebrities well: one of the few discordant notes was struck by a brass band that mistakenly played the Egyptian...
...international role - although just what that role is varies with the perspective of the beholder. To Washington policymakers, Cuba is a cat's paw of the Soviet Union, dispatching armed mercenaries to Africa in exchange for financial and material support. To the Kremlin, Cuba is a faithful Communist ally that shares Moscow's interest in defeating imperialism and needs protection from a powerful and hostile U.S. To many Black African nations, Fidel Castro is a champion of anti-colonialism whose commitment to national liberation is backed up by some 45,000 soldiers, technicians and advisers scattered across...