Word: communisms
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...clean air and water are part of a Communist conspiracy, maybe we could use more Communism, since capitalism is fast making the air unbreathable and water undrinkable. If the D.A.R.'s ancestors could hear them talking such rubbish, they'd kick their dowdy, flowered behinds...
...wears a flag pin on his Brooks Brothers suits. Policemen, American Legionnaires and hardhats love him. In 1960 he wrote: "Communism is the greatest threat which Western civilization has ever known . . . Destiny continues to place in our hands the survival of Western civilization." He sees no reason to change that judgment now. Ask which politicians he most admires and he replies: "Ronald Reagan, George Bush, John Tower...
...measure of Hanoi's own distress at the country's decaying economy is shown in the fact that it has revised one of Communism's oldest rubrics: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." The new principle, as expressed in Hanoi's State Plan for 1970, promises that "those who work much will receive much, those who work little will receive little, and those who are able to work but refuse to must be forced to work and live by the results of their labor...
...accord might also tempt the Eastern Europeans to move too far and too fast in seeking accommodation with the West. If that happens, Soviet leaders may decide to reassert the Brezhnev Doctrine-just as they did in Czechoslovakia two years ago. Because of the dismal failure of Soviet-style Communism to develop healthy roots in Eastern Europe, Communism may face greater risks than the West by the creation of a more relaxed atmosphere...
Rumania's treatment of Jews has been exceptionally decent under Communism. Before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the government permitted some 300,000 Jews to leave the country, mainly for Israel. The remaining 100,000 suffer no official antiSemitism, but many long to join their relatives in Israel. But power politics have forced a reversal in Ceauşescu's emigration policies. Having already incurred the displeasure of the U.S.S.R. by maintaining good relations with Israel, he is apparently unwilling to provoke Russia further by allowing large-scale Jewish emigration...