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...prospect of a Reagan Administration's supporting the blatantly repressive governments of Central America on the sole merit of being anti-Communist makes me very depressed. While I don't particularly like Communism, the opposite extreme can be as bad. My brother, who was working with the Indian people in Guatemala, was murdered last October after being kidnaped in broad daylight by persons who, there is good reason to believe, are members of the Guatemala security forces. I applaud Ambassador White's efforts in El Salvador...
...five-day recess, Prosecutor Jiang Wen condemned Mme. Mao's defense as "a vicious slander and calumny of Chairman Mao Tse-tung." Significantly, the prosecutor did acknowledge that all people in China "are very clear that Chairman Mao was responsible for their plight during the Cultural Revolution"-the sole official recognition of Mao's mistakes made in the trial. But the prosecutor hastily added that Mao could not have ordered his wife to commit such crimes as the attacks on high state and party officials...
Though Rodriguez was the sole petitioner, the Topeka ruling probably will speed the release of all 234 Cubans at Leavenworth. Moreover, it could pay dividends for other "undesirable" refugees in federal prisons, who make up just over 1% of those who fled Cuba last year for the land of "open hearts and open arms" that was promised by President Carter. Of the 800 crammed into a penitentiary in Atlanta, six are awaiting judicial action on petitions similar to Rodriguez's. Most reportedly reckon that if they must be locked up somewhere, they would prefer to be back in Cuba...
...unions attacked the heart of Communist theology. As Adam Bromke, an expert on Eastern Europe at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont, writes in the current issue of Foreign Policy: "It undermines the legitimacy on which Communist power rests by refuting the claim of the Communist Party to be the sole authentic representative of the working class." Communist orthodoxy predicates authoritarian rule: a bedrock belief of Marxism-Leninism is the absolute dictatorship of the proletariat, as represented by its vanguard, the Party. In practical terms, Moscow-style Communism also insists on rigid central planning; that kind of "command" economy...
Time: the end of World War II. Berlin is burning. The Nazi high command sends one of its generals to negotiate an equitable peace with the Allies. His sole bargaining chip is the top-secret formula that produces synthetic fuel which has powered the German fighting machine throughout the war. On route to his rendezvous, the Nazi is captured by an American patrol. Then, in a classic scene of capitalist connivance, an American major takes the formula from him, shakes the Nazi's hand and says: "General, from now on, the world is going to be one big happy...