Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan did nothing to soothe relations in an Independence Day speech at a "Spirit of America" festival in Decatur, Ala. Without specifically naming the U.S.S.R., he proclaimed: "The totalitarian world is a tired place held down by the gravity of its own devising, and America is a rocket pushing upward to the stars." Despite the purple prose, he seemed to be genuine about pursuing the talks. He wrote a personal letter to Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, which echoed his public stand on the proposed space talks. The letter and a message from Shultz were given to Dobrynin to take back...
...were then taken prisoner, a deep sadness came over me. I realized that if I had lived 40 years ago, it could have been me. How can my generation be assured that the horrors of World War II will never happen again, when half the world lives under a totalitarian ideology and the U.S. is drawn closer and closer to a conflict with the supporters of these doctrines in Central America...
...press may believe that Americans are amused by looking at pictures of smiling Oriental children, Chinese "couples in love" and adorable panda bears. But one important fact is left out: the people are kept under a rigid, totalitarian regime that talks peace, understanding and freedom, but is as militaristic, ruthless and restrictive as the government in Moscow...
...athletes have never been particularly enthusiastic Red-baiters. Innuendoes do fly like javelins over female village smithies who toss anvils for totalitarian states. In 1976, the last Summer Games attended by Americans, the U.S. women swimmers could have taken their thumping by East Germany more gracefully. Some muttered that the Germans' particular star, Kornelia Ender, resembled a man, though she did not look like a man to men, certainly not to Roland Mathes, who married her. He was the G.D.R.'s top male swimmer, and a friendship between Mathes and John Naber, the best American, was evident...
...head of the country's nine-member Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference, Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, used harsh language to describe the plight of his flock under the Marxist-led Sandinistas. Said Vega: "The tragedy of the Nicaraguan people is that we are living with a totalitarian ideology that no one wants in this country." While the priest spoke, nearly a dozen military Jeeps circled the building. Says a church spokesman, the Rev. Bismarck Carballo: "Our relations with the Sandinistas have totally deteriorated...