Word: pro-soviet
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Though he has generally been circumspect about saying it outright, Ronald Reagan for his entire presidency has considered the dismantling of Nicaragua's pro-Soviet Sandinista regime both a geopolitical objective and a moral crusade. Last week the President all but abandoned circumspection...
Radio Moscow's 37,500-kW transmitters can reach billions of radios, but that hardly guarantees everyone will listen. In pro-Soviet North Yemen, for instance, only 14% of listeners tune in Radio Moscow, compared with 47% for the BBC and 26% for the Voice of America. Furthermore, to be heard is not necessarily to be believed. Soviet propaganda is greeted around the world with large doses of skepticism, even in the U.S.S.R. Soviet visitors to the U.S. sometimes express shock to see people out of work. Having read so much about rampant U.S. unemployment in the Soviet press, they...
...this sort of theology is tied to other Fundamentalist ideas on geopolitics. However, the Fundamentalists are fiercely anti-Communist and, for that reason, support a strong military and favor U.S. involvement in the affairs of other nations if it can be justified as opposition to Communist encroachment. Fear of pro-Soviet radicals is the basic reason Falwell would risk opprobrium to support South Africa's present regime. Unlike many other American religious groups, Fundamentalists typically favor an extensive U.S. nuclear arsenal...
...tacticians of the past 40 years, orchestrated the victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, Tet in 1968 and the conquest of the South. But he was replaced as Defense Minister in 1980 and dropped from the Politburo in 1982, possibly because he was too outspokenly pro-Soviet. That was heresy to Hanoi's xenophobic leaders, despite their alliance with Moscow. Giap remains on the party's Central Committee, however, and last May met with reporters at the 30th anniversary of Dien Bien...
...Africa, Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) is waging a classic war of attrition in the bush. Its target, the pro-Soviet government in Luanda, relies heavily on some 30,000 Cuban troops, much as the South Vietnamese government relied on American forces until 1975. UNITA's principal backer is South Africa, but Savimbi has visited Washington as frequently as some anticolonialist revolutionaries used to visit Moscow...