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...thesis was that the U.S. should not encourage a violent political uprising in the satellites because it could only lead to Soviet intervention-and to the danger of an incident that might set off World War III. What was more, even if the U.S. wanted to help a rebellion, it could not easily intervene in that part of the world. Example: the Hungarian revolt in 1956. There was a further and more subtle danger as well: if the Communist nations in the East evolved into pluralistic, liberalized societies, the nations of Western Europe might be less wary of Red candidates...
Rand, who left her Russian birthplace while in her teens, said she believes the American people are in the midst of a, "blind, groping, ideologically helpless rebellion" against collectivism and its perpetrator, the "lousy modern intellectual...
...Robinson Rojas Sanford makes clear in The Murder of Allende, the weakness of Allende's political power was trivial compared to the threat of military rebellion. The Chilean armed forces, whose function until then had been to deter an unlikely Peruvian invasion and to suppress internal dissent, clearly held veto power over the Popular Unity government. But Allende, though imprisoned by these restrictions, refused to acknowledge them, speaking as though socialism had taken hold in Chile. His temerity and the myth of an apolitical armed forces made the coup a great surprise to those who had believed...
Acting as a continental godfather, the American military has equipped, trained and educated armies in Latin America whose exaggerated prestige and lack of legitimate purpose leads them to rebellion. And they have rebelled. With the Argentine coup of last month, there are now only two South American nations--Venezuela and Columbia--with nominally civilian governments. Allende's failure to appreciate the extent of this American influence, shaping the military's new role, was largely responsible for his downfall...
Most of the women in this book were rebels in some way. Few rebelled in a political sense-Anuta Sharrow belonged to a revolutionary study group in Kiev, but her first love was music. Nor was their rebellion directed specifically against their parents; interestingly enough, in the one case where this pattern does fit, a daughter rebelled against her mother, a university lecturer, by adopting a traditional feminine role. They were rather rebels in alliance with their parents, mounting what protest they could against a culture that had a stranglehold on the Jewish population in general-and a double...