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...ECONOMIC progress that makes such problems possible is mainly the work of Chiang Ching Kuo, the son of the aging President, and one of the few competent leaders in this bastion of opposition to Communism. Ironically, the reforms he has instituted that have turned the economy around smell strongly of socialism...
...Medical Center (see MEDICINE), the nation's 33rd President died, at 88, from what doctors officially termed "organic failures causing a collapse of the cardiovascular system." Truman had detested Richard Nixon for years after the 1952 campaign, when Nixon implied that Truman might be treasonously soft on Communism, but the feud was since mended. Now Nixon proclaimed a 30-day period of national mourning and praised Truman as "one of the most courageous Presidents in our history" and "a man with guts." Warm tributes from world leaders flowed into Independence, Mo. France's President Georges Pompidou and Great...
Uproar. His second term soon turned frustrating. Scarcely a month went by without some congressional committee grilling one of his friends for some peccadillo or outright misfeasance. China had been taken over by Communists, contributing to the charge that the State Department was "soft on Communism." When the invasion of South Korea started, Truman reacted with typical dispatch. In a space of 60 hours, he ordered U.S. forces into battle and got U.N. endorsement. When General Douglas MacArthur tried to bully him from abroad and issued battlefront ukases challenging U.S. policy, Truman did not hesitate. He recalled the hero...
...pleased, within economic limits, whether or not times were propitious. If their sins afflicted their children, so did those of their parents afflict them. They were only a generation away from the experience of pogroms, and their mother and father still reeked with the hate Cossacks aroused. "The Isaacson" Communism was composed of articles of faith; they used it as a way to feel superior to the world, rather than as a basis for social change, But their right to keep faith with it was earned in sweet and suffering, and it was not at all clear to Daniel that...
...reporter" who feels that the Isaacsons were probably framed on the A. Bomb secrets case, but must have been guilty of some two-bit local operation which in a sane society would have cost them five-years behind bars. What concerns Doctorow is the cause of the couple's Communism, and the effects of its unexamined nature...