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...maintain that neither the agency nor Presidents Eisenhower or Kennedy had anything directly to do with the dictator's death. Officials in the American embassy had tried to persuade Trujillo to resign to end the domestic unrest that the U.S. feared might make the country ripe for Communism. They had also been gingerly in touch with leaders of the political opposition and as a token of the American interest in seeing a change, had provided one faction with three rifles. A group of seven or eight men ambushed Trujillo on the road from his house to the presidential palace...
...ITALIAN COMMUNISM. International Communism presents a varied panorama. Within this panorama is the Italian Communist Party with its particular traditions and its original traits. We have always assumed the best democratic and patriotic traditions of the country, going back to the Risorgimento. Our party has fought to guarantee all fundamental freedoms, including freedom of assembly and speech, within a more progressive social and economic framework. We have never believed, even in 1945, that one single party-or single class-can solve the problems of our country...
...view of the Mediterranean, it is not hard to understand Caramanlis's conception of a United Europe--without NATO and the U.S.--as an alternative to the current balance of power. The old framework is too rigid to contain the present multiplicity of societies. There is no longer a Communism to pit the Western system against--perhaps, as the late Greek Prime Minister. George Papandreou has written, even the term democracy is simply a euphemism and a way of confusing the mind...
...same ones who, if we were overrun, would say: 'Those stupid Koreans, they couldn't prepare themselves to stand up against the North.' " In an important but limited sense, the Premier is correct. Seoul's most important weapon against the North is the passionate anti-Communism that unites South Korea's 33.5 million people. But there is probably a limit to the repression that South Koreans will endure, even in the name of national security...
Truman was a common man who became the nation's Chief Executive-like Ford, by accident-at an uncommon time. The early postwar years marked the apex of America's political influence and prestige. Communism was a cold war threat, but the Soviet Union lagged far, far behind America as a military power. In short, no U.S. President before Truman or after him had such capacity to shape the course of history...