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...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...
...Despite economic recovery and surprisingly effective planning, administration and management, the Nicaraguan economy remains weak and vulnerable to a war effort. An outbreak of hostilities would force the Nicaraguan authorities to adopt "war communism" methods. This would imply labor conscription, extending government control over private sector activities, and generally would radicalize the Nicaraguan political process...
...their homeland more and more each day, they have stood calmly defiant in support of their ideals and their legitimate demands for a free union system. Their message to Moscow is not only making the Soviets squirm, but is also informing anticapitalist idealists right here in the U.S. that Communism is not working...
...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...
AMERICANS VIEW environmental questions as the dessert course of policy making-- something to deal with once the real problems are out of the way. Hence, when we are busy aiming for military superiority, busy trying to halt the spread of godless Communism through Latin America, busy worrying about four dozen stenographers in Tehran, we have no energy left over to worry about thyroid cancer and the chance of meltdown. Especially if addressing the problems of nuclear power would mean short-run worsening of "real problems" like inflation and dependence on foreign energy supplies. Especially if it would mean less electricity...