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People told us one had to watch one's words in public, yet they were very free with us in voicing their opposition to the junta. Furthermore, the government has not developed an oppressive, Orwellian ideology, but preaches only anti-communism. "Chile progresses in peace and order" was the first and last slogan we were to see in the country. Chilean propaganda is not propagated in manifestos and youth groups but through anaesthetic state-controlled television and movie imports like Rambo...
...albums have sold 13 million copies) who preserves the old tent revival style at his striking 7,000-seat Family Worship Center outside Baton Rouge, La. In his weekly one-hour broadcasts, he prowls the stage, sometimes breaking into excited jig steps, as he revs up perorations assailing Communism, Catholicism and "secular humanism," the last of which he blames for abortion, pornography, AIDS and assorted social ills. He takes in $140 million a year. The money pays for his weekly show (aired in 197 markets), his daily Bible study, and in 1984 enabled him to launch the Jimmy Swaggart Bible...
...also a staple, whether on domestic issues like abortion ("We are offering up 1 1/2 million babies a year upon the altar of sensuality and selfishness") or international topics like the Nicaraguan contras. (The U.S. has "a moral obligation," Robertson maintains, to support "freedom fighters" who battle "satanic" Communism...
Savimbi's career is no textbook example of anti-Communism. In his fight against the Portuguese colonial rule that ended in Angola in 1975, Savimbi traveled to China to study revolutionary tactics. In those days, he talked of turning Angola into a Maoist agricultural commune, stating, "You can't apply capitalism to Africa...
...last-minute addition to Botha's 27-minute speech, the proposal was dismissed by critics as a bit of charlatanry aimed at emphasizing South Africa's solidarity with the West against Soviet Communism. Declared Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize: "What has Nelson's release to do with Sakharov? I can't see why they are linked. It looks like a ploy that a politician has thought up, that will sound good to ears in the West (and show) that he is concerned about prisoners of conscience --when he's got so many prisoners...