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With unerring instinct they led their men to a beerhouse, called the Bürgerbrau Keller, famed Bavarian cellar. Within was Bavarian Dictator von Kahr and some others. Dr. von Kahr was in the middle of outlining his state policy in which he denounced Marxism, when the door opened and in walked Herr Hitler and General von Ludendorff with some of their followers, who fired a few shots into the ceiling by way of effect...
...President of China, was later dismissed and died in solitary confinement in 1969. Both were posthumously restored to honor in 1981 when they were officially recorded as having been "persecuted to death." They had been brothers in the faith of Mao-Marx-Lenin. But history held truths that overrode Marxism-Leninism as, for example, that suffering is a bond, but power is a drug. And once power was in their hands, the drug addled their minds and together they brought China to the threshold of ruin...
...pressures not only Mao's isolation but his growing distrust of the Soviet Union. "Mao's visits to Russia were not only very short but very unpleasant, " said Hu. Mao believed that the Soviets had bureaucratized their revolution, had betrayed Marxism, were traitors to Communism ? revisionists! If the Soviets had succumbed to bureaucracy, might not the same thing happen in China? Thus, a growing suspicion that revisionism and class enemies might be infecting even his own party. On went Hu, describing the paranoia growing. Mao had disliked intellectuals ever since he had been a $30-a-month librarian...
Kirkpatrick, who is the President's representative on the commission, is expected to be one of its driving forces. In a speech last week, she stressed that Communist regimes "can be overturned" and the spread of Marxism should not be considered irreversible. Robert Strauss, the blunt Texan who is a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is likely to be the most prominent voice from outside the Administration among the appointed members. When phoned on Sunday night and offered the position, Strauss, who served as President Carter's special envoy to the Middle East, turned...
...Soviet influence in the Middle East and Africa. The country's Marxist rulers, who toppled the pro-U.S. government of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974, now only rarely open their doors to Western reporters. One of the few who has managed to catch a glimpse of how Marxism African-style works is TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief John Borrell. His report...