Word: communism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always interviewing you," recalls White. "You got the impression that he had been isolated for a long time. He would ask questions about what San Francisco looked like. What were the buildings like? How many people had cars, refrigerators? He didn't seem to be interested in Communism as an international conspiracy. He talked in terms of what the country would...
When North Viet Nam's President died of a heart attack in Hanoi last week at the age of 79, he left an impressive legacy of accomplishment. He had restored a sense of nationhood to Viet Nam. He had come to represent a form of "national Communism" that left him out of both the Chinese and the Soviet orbits, but prompted both powers to court him. With the limited resources of a tiny impoverished Asian nation?and with vast help from Peking and Moscow?he had withstood the enormous firepower of the mightiest industrial nation on earth. In so doing...
...stray outside the tourist reservations, they meet with a warmth and welcoming generosity that is unmatched anywhere in the world. In the countryside, peasants offer to share their meal and provide a place to spend the night. This innocent unworldliness, one of the redeeming features of peoples living under Communism, is as yet unspoiled by the worst aspects of Western culture now being imported for the sake of hard currency. As a tourist attraction, it beats striptease and roulette and is surely one of the best reasons for Westerners to go East...
...Soviet bloc, the invasion has accelerated the fragmentation of Communist parties into rival factions, a process begun with the outbreak of the Sino-Soviet schism of the early 1960s. It also greatly weakened Moscow's claim to be the sole rightful interpreter of the true path of Communism...
...Crusade, seeking, said Hargis, "a spiritual blessing and reaffirmation of faith." But there was a bonus. "Our trips to Israel are not only religious," Hargis reminded his faithful entourage. "I want you anti-Communists to meet anti-Communists in other parts of the world. Israel is a bastion against Communism...