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...rule, Ulbricht accomplished much for which East Germans must be grateful. After the 1953 uprising, he directed the economy to produce more consumer goods. He recruited thousands of engineers and young technicians to manage the economy, encouraging them to use the most modern techniques and equipment. Today this "computer Communism," as other East Europeans enviously call it, has thrust the G.D.R. into the ranks of the world's top ten industrial nations. Its well-stocked supermarkets, the ready availability of many consumer goods such as refrigerators and television sets, and its modern housing complexes give its citizens the highest...
Most Americans believed that American-style republics deserved support, and that communism was a bad thing. Naturally, therefore, the United States threw its weight behind Vietnam's liberal classes. At Geneva, Vietnam was divided into a politically democratic, capitalist south and a socialist north. Since the Vietnamese had just fought a long and bitter war for national sovereignty and unity, this solution was less than ideal. But each side--the liberals and the communists--believed that Vietnam would be united under its own system of government in the national elections scheduled for 1956. And in the south, the middle-classes...
Nevertheless, most Americans did not think of themselves only as fighting against communism, but as fighting for political democracy. In countries where political democracy seemed to mean radical social change, to be sure, the United States had shown itself willing to tolerate military dictatorship, just as had the previously democratic middle-and upper-classes of those countries. Franco's Spain and the Afrikaaners' South Africa, after all, are bulwarks of The Free World. But most Americans do not really like to defend these countries, much as Vietnamese liberals were not really happy with Diem. American supporters of a right-wing...
...devoted a lifetime to the army. At his desk every morning at 7:50, he is a model of efficiency, has no hobbies except reading (in four languages) and takes work home at night. He was a leader of the military coup that toppled Goulart on charges of "Communism and corruption." When he retired from the service to take over Petrobrás in 1969, he was a tough senior judge on the Supreme Military Tribunal that is charged with prosecuting "subversives...
...hate aggression and indiscriminate killing. Genocide was never hailed as a virtue, of course, but in the post-Hitler era it has come in for special condemnation. Mass murder, we were told, was the single most abhorrent feature in the programs of both the Nazis and of international Communism. Both systems practiced slaughter and butchery on a mass scale, and that was reason enough for opposing their advances. Even today, the handful of stalwarts who still defend America's entry into Vietnam base their position on the alleged need to prevent the bloodbath that would inevitably follow a Communist takeover...