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Distinguishing between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, he added: "We tend to spend more time criticizing countries that are partly free, and making progress toward freedom, than those where little freedom exists." Finally, he argued, the greatest violation of human rights is the "new international terrorism, supported by various international networks." Novak concluded by promising the delegates that there would be no zigzagging on human rights by the Reagan Administration...
...Reagan Administration's view, overemphasis on human rights only undermines "authoritarian" regimes that have a capacity for change, and increases the chance that they will be succeeded by "totalitarian" governments-specifically, Communist ones-that obliterate human rights altogether. Says Ernest W. Lefever, who has been selected as Haig's top assistant for human rights policy: "There
...concerned that open societies sometimes get victimized by the practical consequences of their openness and by the lack of access to information about totalitarian regimes where, it is our conviction, the major abuses to human rights are occurring today. But this is an ancillary problem related to our more strongly held concern that past human rights policies have in many instances been counterproductive, not only to the objective of strengthening human rights but also from the standpoint of vital American interests...
Artistic avant-gardes wither in totalitarian regimes, whether of the left or the right. The collective efforts of the constructivists Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Tallin and the rest were only possible, one may surmise, because they did not realize how totalitarian Leninism actually was. Oligarchs, whether collective or single, dislike the very idea of avant-garde art because it creates new elites. As Ortega y Gasset remarked, its first effect is to divide; it splits the audience into those who understand it and those who do not. This cleavage does not necessarily run along political lines, and so it may not conform...
...could TIME choose Ronald Reagan as Man of the Year over Poland's Lech Walesa? Walesa is the only person thus far to challenge successfully totalitarian Communism at its weakest point, human rights and freedom. He is risking his life and the lives of his wife and six small children...