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...behind the Iron Curtain. Installed and maintained by Soviet arms they may be, but they have had to adapt in ways that reflect the peculiar priorities and aspirations of each country. Nationalism remains the potent force in Eastern Europe--far more so than competing ideologies of either liberalism or Communism--at least in terms of immediate mass appeal. We tend to forget that independence for countries there is a relatively recent and hard-won prize--less than 100 or in some cases 50 years old. Stability for Eastern European regimes depends largely on their success in integrating national sentiment into...
Since World War II, the U.S. has supported the worst dictatorships in the world under the pretext of fighting Communism. Yet this policy has always pushed these countries into the arms of Communist nations. Iran is no different from China, Cuba or Viet Nam. Because religious people cannot be called Communists, the people of Iran are now being suppressed under the guise of modernization. Imagine where the Iranians could seek help if America did not assist them...
...Franciscan friar noted for his spirituality, Anastasio Ballestrero, 66 this week. But Ballestrero, though eligible to be elected Pope, is an unlikely candidate because he is not yet a Cardinal. Antonio Cardinal Poma of Bologna, 68, is a kindly, humble man, a stern foe of any detente with Italian Communism. He is also head of Italy's national bishops' conference ? but suffers from erysipelas ("St. Anthony's fire"), a painful, recurrent skin disease. The same affliction troubles Ugo Cardinal Poletti, 64, the Pope's Vicar for Rome and thus the capital's real bishop, a prelate who has shown...
Huntington is so strident in his anti-communism, in fact, that within the administration he was reportedly known as "Mad Dog." It was Huntington who drafted the main Carter strategic assessment last year, Presidential Review Memorandum-10, which heralded the passing of "detente" and mandated a new generation of weapons of destruction...
Somoza said he unleashed his military forces on Esteli and three other major cities to save the nation from communism, which he claims is being imported by Cuban-trained Sandinista guerillas...