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...quarter of a century, Cardinal Mindszenty symbolized the fundamental incompatibility of Christianity and totalitarianism, whether Nazi or Communist. His death of heart failure last Tuesday not only ended a stirring drama of Christian martyrdom, but in a sense, marked the final stage of an uncompromising view of Communism that has almost disappeared in the West. The source of his greatness, however, lay not in popular acceptance but, as in Thomas More's case, in "his willful indifference to realities which were obvious to quite ordinary contemporaries." The cross he bore--his love of God and freedom--has been lifted...
Surely we fought so long in South Viet Nam because we believed that all its people would suffer under Communism. I therefore propose that we evacuate the entire nation. Let them all vote with their feet and come to America...
After studies in Hue and Saigon, Ho worked his way as a cabin boy aboard a ship to Europe. There, supporting himself with odd jobs (pastry cook at London's Carlton Hotel, photo retoucher in Paris), he became enamored of Communism as the means of overthrowing his country's imperialist burden...
...Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders stood impassively on the marble Lenin mausoleum overlooking Red Square last week, loudspeakers boomed out the Kremlin's May Day greeting to the Soviet people. It was the supreme holiday of international Communism, yet not a word was uttered to congratulate the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong on their overwhelming victory. Among the placards carried by 100,000 Russian workers on their May 1 march, only one referred -obliquely-to the event: "Fraternal greetings to the heroic Vietnamese people," it read. The Communist Party daily Pravda was a nonchalant...
...ordinary circumstances, such an outcome would serve to allay fears that the ruling Armed Forces Movement (M.F.A.) was easing Portugal toward Communism. But these are not ordinary times in Lisbon, and the M.F.A. had made sure in advance that last week's voting would be little more than an opinion poll and an exercise in "political education" for a populace that they do not consider ready for full democracy...