Word: communists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyes are often glazed, almost as if he were in a trance. His face is puffy, possibly a sign of cortisone treatment. He grasps a pen and signs his name only with great difficulty. Still, as Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, 72, climbed the long flight of steps to the top of the Lenin mausoleum in Moscow last week, he looked healthier than he has in months. For more than two hours, he stood stolidly in a bleak drizzle, waving occasionally to the thousands of Soviet soldiers, schoolchildren and workers who marched through Red Square in the annual...
...pretense that Moscow did not abandon is its claim that the U.S. is the persecutor of dissidents. It awarded the Lenin Peace Prize to Communist Angela Davis, a onetime activist who now lectures at San Francisco State University on ethnic and women's studies. Davis, told reporters that publicity about Soviet dissidents was "a smokescreen to prevent Americans from understanding oppression at home...
...Vietnamese "boat people" as their chartered jet from Malaysia landed in Des Moines, but their expressions of joy and hope were much like those of the Soviet Jews. Tran Qui Son, 26, had fled Viet Nam by boat with his wife and two young sons after the Communist regime had forced him to close his appliance repair shop. They floated to Malaysia, where they huddled with 60,000 other refugees awaiting a new home. Said he: "In my country I could no longer care for my family. Here it will be different." The day after he arrived, he was able...
...Soviet objectives. I do regard the Russian threat as a worldwide thing. Their objective has never changed; it is the domination of the world by the Communist system. There are only about 35 democracies now out of about 120 countries. Together, by one means or another, we must see that the Soviets don't win their objectives. We have to get an interlocking alliance throughout the world. I would like to see Japan giving more of her tremendous resources to defense-after all, she is in a pretty tricky position. We have the best political system the world...
...Similarly, not long ago the U.S. Government engaged in an outrageous episode in Vietnam. Surely we should sell our government bonds. And all U.S. industry sold to this wicked government--so we must sell all our domestic stocks too. And of course trade with repressive regimes in all the communist countries is out of the question. What is left except outer space...