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...President, who finally brought our men back from Viet Nam and has desperately tried to bring about peace in the world, is on the verge of being impeached. Watergate was no worse than country boys upsetting outhouses on Halloween. The threat of Communism is another matter...
...tente with the Soviet Union, Ford staunchly defended those policies on the floor of the House. He also approved Nixon's overtures to Peking, but concedes that he would not have made them had he been President then. "Not with my record of 23 years' opposition [to Communism]," he told a reporter. "But I approve of the policy, and I would hope when the time came, I would have been flexible enough to listen to reasons advanced by a person such as Kissinger...
...persecuted in Czechoslovakia is not a clear advantage. Kundera's work was banned in Czechoslovakia not long after his novel The Joke was published in 1967. It was about a youth who innocently wrote a postcard to his girl friend that teased her about her dedication to Communism. His little joke got him seven years at hard labor. As Philip Roth notes in his introduction to Kundera's short-story collection Laughable Loves, the author also paid. Now 45, Kundera lives in the provincial city of Brno, stripped of his teaching job at the Prague Film School, without...
...respect to the North Vietnamese Communists who held me captive. However, it would be a grave injustice to call this the national characteristic of millions of sensitive, creative and patriotic Vietnamese both North and South. My ire is directed toward an ideology. My empathy is for those enslaved by Communism...
...doctrinaire artistic strictures-may have been, as he later said, a naive radical. But the play's point is, if simple, nonetheless vibrant and valid for the historical moment which inspired it and for today. As Odets told the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, it wasn't Communism that made him hate poverty...