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...always in tune, and he trusts his own feelings. All his political opinions have been born of feelings?the passionate antagonism toward Big Government resulting from his boyhood observations of Dixon and his own experiences with the progressive income tax once he returned from the military; his staunch anti-Communism from his days with the Screen Actors Guild in the late 1940s, when he packed a pistol for self-protection. He will read up on a subject once it has initially been proved on his pulses...
...port of Gdansk last August, Walesa did far more than seize the reins of an angry strike movement. To millions of Polish workers, he became the symbol of their dreams for a better life. In the process, he helped launch a bold experiment to bend the rigid lines of Communism in a new direction-and hurled a defiant challenge at Moscow's control over its East European satellites...
George Meany, 85, gruff, cigar-puffing chieftain of U.S. labor who rose from Bronx plumber to president of the AFL-CIO from its birth, in 1955, to 1979. Whether battling for fuller union lunch pails, assailing Communism, or dismissing critics who accused him of being too conservative, Meany lectured Presidents and public alike with equal bluntness...
Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, French existentialist philosopher who embraced Communism and later Maoism and deeply influenced a generation of postwar intellectuals. In novels (Nausea), plays (No Exit) and tracts (Being and Nothingness), Sartre contended that God is dead and that man thus defines himself through his own actions...
Allen, 44, who grew up in Collingswood, N.J., early developed a fascination, though hardly a sympathy, for Communism in its various manifestations. After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees at Notre Dame, he went to the University of Munich in West Germany to work on a doctoral dissertation. In 1962 he helped found the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies. When Nixon was elected President, Allen was appointed to the NSC, but he quickly ran afoul of the man in charge: Kissinger. Relegated to lackluster assignments, Allen quit in ten months...