Word: pro-soviet
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...scheme to dust the dictator's shoes with a powder designed to make his beard fall out. The agency was also implicated in the assassination of Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961 and a failed attempt on the life of Premier Patrice Lumumba of the Congo. The pro-Soviet Lumumba was killed in 1961, a year after the CIA attempt, by rivals acting on their...
...views in open meetings and open discussion? The true nature of the EROTC was brought out when we questioned them about Soviet aggression in Afghanistan: they exclaimed that the Soviets were doing an excellent job crushing the Afghan rebels and went on to add that the Red army could whip the U. S any day as they did in Vietnam. In reality, the EROTC does not appear just to be the enemies of ROTC but rather the pro-Soviet enemies of the entire United States. In light of this we find it difficult to take this group or its views...
Instead of rewriting the history of Vietnam (McKibben's favorite subject), Louis chose to praise the rise of the Green Party in West Germany. If one is anti-NATO, anti-American, somewhat pro-Soviet, and a neutralist who hearkens back to the disorder of Weimar, then I suppose one could support the Greens. They are a loosely organized agglomeration of environmentalist and so-called peace parties who envision a firmly neutralist Europe (along the lines of Finland perhaps?), but their main accomplishment, should they get the 5 percent of the vote needed to become represented in parliament, would...
Last week Chinese leaders made a gesture of ideological conciliation to Moscow by playing host to Georges Marchais, head of the pro-Soviet French Communist Party. The leaders of the two parties announced that they would resume relations, which were broken in 1965 when the Chinese accused the French Communists of blind allegiance to Moscow...
...Soviet Union in the present conflict has been an anomalous one. Anxious to retain its longstanding ties with Baghdad while building a new relationship with Tehran, Moscow was hoping to negotiate a peace settlement between the two countries and use that agreement as the basis of a new pro-Soviet alliance. No way, said Khomeini, adding that the real test of Soviet friendship rested on whether Moscow would publicly condemn Saddam Hussein as the aggressor in the war and would halt all arms shipments to Iraq. The Soviets temporized, finally concluding that there was little they could do to dissuade...