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  • Don't you know he had ties to communism?†   (source)
  • Not once, however, had the communists been mentioned until today, regardless of the fact that people of such political creed were also to be punished.†   (source)
  • Billions of dollars flowed into our exchequer from the United States and other Western countries, as well as weapons to help the ISI train the Afghans to fight the communist Red Army.†   (source)
  • Baba believed Carter had unwittingly done more for communism than Leonid Brezhnev.†   (source)
  • With communism wicking across the Far East, America's leaders began to see a future alliance with Japan as critical to national security.†   (source)
  • The subjects were economics and politics, the Depression, the situation in Europe, the worrisome advances being made by World Communism.†   (source)
  • "Well," he said, "a black Communist bisexual would have really irked her."†   (source)
  • Indeed, Pan-Species Communism is a natural continuation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.†   (source)
  • Iran's military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it's like a mix of the Communist Party, the KGB, and the mafia.†   (source)
  • For it was often through secondary remarks in secondary speeches that the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party signaled the shifts in his thinking.†   (source)
  • With the Soviet Union having reunified Slovakia with the Czech Republic and creating Czechoslovakia under their influence, Lale's business was, according to him, the only one not immediately nationalized by the communist rulers.†   (source)
  • Walking in the park, they had stumbled across an altercation between National Socialist and Communist gangs of thugs.†   (source)
  • One of these was Mr. Satish Kumar, my biology teacher at Petit Seminaire and an active Communist who was always hoping Tamil Nadu would stop electing movie stars and go the way of Kerala.†   (source)
  • There is a rumor that he crushed a communist's windpipe with his hands.†   (source)
  • They rejected urban renewal three times because they thought it was a communist plot, and they defeated any number of proposals for historic-zoning ordinances.†   (source)
  • He thinks I'm talking about Communists.†   (source)
  • IF WE BOMB THE WHOLE COUNTRY TO BITS—TO PROTECT IT FROM COMMUNISM—WHAT KIND OF PROTECTION IS THAT?†   (source)
  • That person said, You ask for a house loan and they say no loan, because your brother is a communist.†   (source)
  • Robbie had put down his trowel and stood to roll a cigarette, a hangover from his Communist Party time—another abandoned fad, along with his ambitions in anthropology, and the planned hike from Calais to Istanbul.†   (source)
  • Bit of a Communist.†   (source)
  • Some, including my own grandparents with their children, feared the Communists and fled to the small offshore island of Taiwan.†   (source)
  • From all accounts there are no more puritanical mores in the world than those enforced by the Communists in Russia, where women's fashions, for instance, are as prudent and all-covering as any American Baptist would desire.†   (source)
  • With the break-up of communist Russia, Artemis Senior had decided to invest a huge chunk of the Fowl fortune in establishing new shipping lines to the vast continent.†   (source)
  • An assassination attempt has been made on Hitler's life, and for once not by Jewish Communists or English capitalists, but by a German general who's not only a count, but young as well.†   (source)
  • His political affiliations were dodgy: he had all kinds of friends who were Communists.†   (source)
  • Was Ho Chi Minh a Communist stooge, or a nationalist savior, or both, or neither?†   (source)
  • The communist guy, in chocolate.†   (source)
  • I even tried inviting him to a study session, but he refused, although in jest he began calling me the "Chinmunist," a combination of Chin and communist.†   (source)
  • He was born in Hamburg in 1936, the son of a communist family.†   (source)
  • It's full of communists and agitators, who want to, bring down the government.†   (source)
  • Me and Dennis weren't for communism.†   (source)
  • No, they're not part of some Communist plot.†   (source)
  • I caught brief glimpses of world history in the making (high tea with vanquished Iraqi soldiers in the first Gulf War, ninety-proof vodka with Muscovites celebrating the fall of Communism, diving for cover in a Bosnian graveyard as a funeral procession came under attack) and I chased news across the United States (the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state, the parade of presidential candidates through Iowa and New Hampshire, the trials of assassins and thieves ranging from a New York mobster to a Louisiana governor).†   (source)
  • In Gatlin, being illegitimate was like being a communist or an atheist.†   (source)
  • The woman next to me at the relay bench was an intense Communist woman named Floor.†   (source)
  • Years later, after observing Communist insurgency in Southeast Asia, President John F. Kennedy—who had served in the navy during World War II—and others in the military understood the need for unconventional warriors.†   (source)
  • We found binoculars with old Communist hammer-and-sickle emblems.†   (source)
  • The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.†   (source)
  • As a boy, Ramius sensed more than thought that Soviet Communism ignored a basic human need.†   (source)
  • They tore down temples and shrines: Mao wanted communism to have no competition from other religions.†   (source)
  • Several slots on the rack are occupied by the Reverend Wayne's famous bestseller, How America Was Saved from Communism: ELVIS SHOT JFK.†   (source)
  • Trueba would not listen to this sort of thing: it smacked, he said, of Communism.†   (source)
  • The first refugees arrived in Clarkston in the late 1980s and early 1990s from Southeast Asia—mostly Vietnamese and Cambodians fleeing Communist governments.†   (source)
  • In 1949, after centuries of inaccessibility, Nepal opened it borders to the outside world, and a year later the new Communist regime in China closed Tibet to foreigners.†   (source)
  • As rock-ribbed a Republican as ever was allowed to take a breath in West Virginia, my father detested the Russian Communists, although, it should be said, not quite as much as certain American politicians.†   (source)
  • At times you'd think he was some sort of Communist, then he comes out with something that makes him sound true blue Tory.†   (source)
  • You're not behaving like communists.†   (source)
  • Malcolm's working in deep cover, sponsoring a Communist revival.†   (source)
  • It has a Christian summer camp whose founder, David Noebel, outlined the dangers of rock 'n' roll in his pamphlet Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles.†   (source)
  • This fight is every bit as significant as the struggles against the fascism of the Third Reich and the murderous communism of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • So I get to be a big labor leader instead, and my Dad tries to get me railroaded to jail as a Communist.†   (source)
  • One reason for that is the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and Indochina.†   (source)
  • It was three days before that Communist sedation wore off.†   (source)
  • Like ....I don't know, communism or something.†   (source)
  • I didn't mind communism; it was a welcome change from the exhausting romances that made up most of the curriculum.†   (source)
  • Distinguished Service Cross in Korea, for leading an escape from a Communist prison camp.†   (source)
  • We asked him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at first, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn't much shelter or food or clothing.†   (source)
  • For me, the first sights of communist Cuba were a great relief after Haiti.†   (source)
  • In 1966, one year after Nicolae Ceausescu became the Communist dictator of Romania, he made abortion illegal.†   (source)
  • 'The Communist sergeant,' said Yossarian.†   (source)
  • He got a pure silver cigarette lighter, a gold-plated ink pen and a five-dollar camera, so that he could take all his experiences back to Alabama after they vanquished the communist horde and defended democracy, or whatever it was they were supposed to do.†   (source)
  • If we overseas Chinese would just send money to the Communist bank, our relatives said, they might get a percentage of it for themselves.†   (source)
  • And yet, my friends, good things have also happened in this traumatic century: the defeat of Nazism, the collapse of communism, the rebirth of Israel on its ancestral soil, the demise of apartheid, Israel's peace treaty with Egypt, the peace accord in Ireland.†   (source)
  • He could have given every penny to the Red Cross, or to some slick televangelist, or to the Communist Party.†   (source)
  • Some two hundred years later, in 1979, a lawyer called Maurice Bishop started a new revolution, which the guidebook said was inspired by the Communist dictatorships in Cuba and Nicaragua.†   (source)
  • Fear about the global spread of communism is rampant in the United States.†   (source)
  • Last night, I went to Club Caramel and sat there while that girl played the xylophone and sang ten songs about communism.†   (source)
  • Ah—I thought the Communists were all for violent overthrow and that sort of thing.†   (source)
  • On watch, Mortenson was authorized to fire at the Communist snipers if they shot at East German civilians trying to escape.†   (source)
  • Ancient Sparta came to mind, Communist Russia and her satellites.†   (source)
  • Yesterday the London Observer said police were hunting for the son of a Venezuelan Communist lawyer for questioning in the triple slaying.†   (source)
  • The spirit of mass action surged, but I remained skeptical of any action undertaken with the Communists and Indians.†   (source)
  • What're you, a communist?" asked Bobby.†   (source)
  • We have Communists and Fourths and Ruddyites and Societians and Single-Taxers and you name it.†   (source)
  • There's Sam Lonnigan, who as a liberal-leaning broadcaster became snared by Joe McCarthy's communist witch hunt.†   (source)
  • Members of the unit rescued Grenada's governor-general, Paul Scoon, during the U.S.—led invasion of the small Caribbean nation after a Communist takeover.†   (source)
  • I thought you were a Communist.†   (source)
  • I was raised to believe Catholics were idol-worshippers, liberals were communists, and that black and white never mixed.†   (source)
  • The KP people, Lydia and Johan, gazed hack at him stony-eyed; both were devout communists.†   (source)
  • "It's as if we expect border control agents to do what a century of communism could not: defeat the natural market forces of supply and demand and defeat the natural human desire for freedom and opportunity," noted New York mayor Michael Bloomberg told Congress.†   (source)
  • Could it be caused by Communists?†   (source)
  • Survived the communists after the fall of Saigon and then pirates at sea, even a typhoon.†   (source)
  • We were trying to beat the communists at their own game.†   (source)
  • So my report was about the threat of Communism, the Chinese Army, how MacArthur was a visionary, that Truman should have listened to him.†   (source)
  • If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.†   (source)
  • Martian Communists?†   (source)
  • Their plans, they said, were to put the inmates to work in a public/private enterprise, a slick mixture of capitalism and communism.†   (source)
  • His stories of trading for copra, fights with gangs in pre-Communist Shanghai and, as they both got older, beautiful island maidens, were some of the highlights of Tyler's childhood.†   (source)
  • Remember how she always used to swear you were a Communist?†   (source)
  • I sold capitalism to communists.†   (source)
  • And Communism?†   (source)
  • Surely, Will, you must be sympathetic to the cause of the South Vietnamese and their efforts to repel the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.†   (source)
  • You talk like a Communist.†   (source)
  • Wouldn't that disqualify him as any kind of anti-Communist figure?†   (source)
  • In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind—too little food.†   (source)
  • None of these ole Communist fish eggs.†   (source)
  • He's darn near a Communist, that's what people say.†   (source)
  • Earth still possessed democracies, monarchies, benevolent dictatorships, communism and capitalism.†   (source)
  • HESTHER: He's a Communist, then?†   (source)
  • He selected a slender book, Directory of Communist Leaders, found the name, and read: "Torgatz, Dmitri; born Leningrad 1903?†   (source)
  • He had recently revised his views, admitted his past errors, and recanted them in several detailed statements, and he had not only been received into the Communist Party but had soon afterwards been entrusted with his present responsible task.†   (source)
  • To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.†   (source)
  • Afraid of the word 'politics' (which eventually became a synonym for Communism among the more reactionary elements, so I hear, and it was worth your life to use the word!)†   (source)
  • Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.   (source)
  • He had heard about unions; in his mind unions and Communists were linked.   (source)
    communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property
  • It was at that meeting that Oliver uttered prophetic words: "Today it is the Communist Party.†   (source)
    communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
  • I told the court that I was not a Communist and had always regarded myself as an African patriot.†   (source)
  • He emphatically denied that the ANC took orders from the Communist Party.†   (source)
  • The Communist Party sought to emphasize class distinctions whilst the ANC seeks to harmonize them.†   (source)
  • I did not need to become a Communist in order to work with them.†   (source)
  • They were unashamedly anti-Communist and anti-Indian.†   (source)
  • It is true that there has often been close cooperation between the ANC and the Communist Party.†   (source)
  • A large part of the ANC and Communist Party leadership had been in exile.†   (source)
  • Mariam heard the answer in his laugh: that in the eyes of the Taliban, being a communist and the leader of the dreaded KHAD made Najibullah only slightly more contemptible than a woman.†   (source)
  • The Supreme Court under Rabbani was filled now with hard-liner mullahs who did away with the communist-era decrees that empowered women and instead passed rulings based on Shari'a, strict Islamic laws that ordered women to cover, forbade their travel without a male relative, punished adultery with stoning.†   (source)
  • He was a communist!†   (source)
  • The proposal was ratified, and in preparation for the Day of Protest, we closed ranks with the SAIC, the APO, and the Communist Party.†   (source)
  • They maintained that the Communist Party dominated and controlled the ANC and that in order for negotiations to begin we must break with the party.†   (source)
  • Here, I believed, was a sufficient threat that compelled us to join hands with our Indian and Communist colleagues.†   (source)
  • Under the Suppression of Communism Act, the government outlawed the Communist Party—an ally of the ANC and other anti-apartheid organizations.†   (source)
  • The Communist Party had secretly reconstituted itself underground and was now considering forming its own military wing.†   (source)
  • In fact, I never said anything of the sort, but his testimony was meant to link me and MK to the Communist Party.†   (source)
  • Like Govan, Ahmed Kathrada and Rusty Bernstein testified to their membership of the Communist Party as well as the ANC.†   (source)
  • Moses was an old-line Communist, and I told him that his opposition was like the Communist Party in Cuba under Batista.†   (source)
  • The Communist Party's main aim, on the other hand, was to remove the capitalists and to replace them with a working-class government.†   (source)
  • With the banning of the ANC, PAC, and Communist Party, the Black Consciousness Movement helped fill a vacuum among young people.†   (source)
  • I disputed the allegations of the state that the aims and objects of the ANC and the Communist Party were one and the same.†   (source)
  • They seemed less intent on finding out my views than on proving that I was a Communist and a terrorist.†   (source)
  • One of our earliest and longest debates concerned the relationship between the ANC and the Communist Party.†   (source)
  • Govan followed Walter in the witness box and proudly related to the court his longtime membership in the Communist Party.†   (source)
  • The engine of this grand plan was Umkhonto we Sizwe, under the political direction of the ANC and the Communist Party, and the headquarters of Umkhonto was Rivonia.†   (source)
  • Therewas also a document in my handwriting called "How to be a good Communist," which the state suggested was proof that I was a card-carrying Communist.†   (source)
  • After these preliminaries, we focused on the critical issues: the armed struggle, the ANC's alliance with the Communist Party, the goal of majority rule, and the idea of racial reconciliation.†   (source)
  • The act outlawed the Communist Party of South Africa and made it a crime, punishable by a maximum of ten years' imprisonment, to be a member of the party or to further the aims of communism.†   (source)
  • I had long argued that Communist literature was, for the most part, dull, esoteric, and Western-centered, but ought to be simple, clear, and relevant to the African masses.†   (source)
  • But I had little knowledge of Marxism, and in political discussions with my Communist friends I found myself handicapped by my ignorance of Marxist philosophy.†   (source)
  • Mtolo said that while he had never lost faith in the ideals of the ANC, he did lose faith in the organization when he realized that it and MK were instruments of the Communist Party.†   (source)
  • I told them I was a South African nationalist, not a Communist, that nationalists came in every hue and color, and that I was firmly committed to a nonracial society.†   (source)
  • I read the report of Blas Roca, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, about their years as an illegal organization during the Batista regime.†   (source)
  • THE MEETINGS with the committee continued, and we stalled on the same issues that had always prevented us from moving forward: the armed struggle, the Communist Party, and majority rule.†   (source)
  • All of their questions were slanted in that direction, and when I reiterated that I was neither a Communist nor a terrorist, they attempted to show that I was not a Christian either by asserting that the Reverend Martin Luther King never resorted to violence.†   (source)
  • The government had granted temporary indemnities to Joe Slovo, the general secretary of the Communist Party, and Joe Modise, the commander of MK, and to see these two men shaking hands with the National Party leaders who had demonized them for decades was extraordinary.†   (source)
  • Through Joe, I enlisted the efforts of white Communist Party members who had resolved on a course of violence and had already executed acts of sabotage like cutting government telephone and communication lines.†   (source)
  • "You know, Captain," he said, "there is nothing you can do to me that can truly affect me for I am a member of the most revolutionary political organization in the world, the Communist Party, which has a distinguished record of service to oppressed people around the globe.†   (source)
  • Still ringing in my ears was my final meeting with the Zambian leaders who told me that while they knew the ANC was stronger and more popular than the PAC, they understood the PAC's pure African nationalism but were bewildered by the ANC's nonracialism and Communist ties.†   (source)
  • I had barely commenced my proposal when Moses Kotane, the secretary of the Communist Party and one of the most powerful figures in the ANC executive, staged a counterassault, accusing me of not having thought out the proposal carefully enough.†   (source)
  • Besides Sobukwe, there was also John Gaetsewe, a leading member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions; Aaron Molete, an ANC member who worked for New Age; and Stephen Tefu, a prominent Communist, trade unionist, and PAC member.†   (source)
  • Mr. de Klerk's lifting the State of Emergency in June seemed to set the stage for a resumption of talks, but in July, government security forces arrested about forty members of the ANC, including Mac Maharaj, Pravin Gordhan, Siphiwe Nyanda, and Billy Nair, claiming that they were part of a Communist Party plot called Operation Vula to overthrow the government.†   (source)
  • The new charges were read: we were alleged to have recruited persons for sabotage and guerrilla warfare for the purpose of starting a violent revolution; we had allegedly conspired to aid foreign military units to invade the republic in order to support a Communist revolution; and we had solicited and received funds from foreign countries for this purpose.†   (source)
  • It is by no means a blueprint for a socialist state...The ANC has never at any period of its history advocated a revolutionary change in the economic structure of the country, nor has it, to the best of my recollection, ever condemned capitalist society ....The ANC, unlike the Communist Party, admitted Africans only as members.†   (source)
  • Nobody but Hitler would have dared to suggest that such cooperation turned Churchill orRoosevelt into Communists or Communist tools, or that Britain and America were working to bring about a Communist world...It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accepted Communists as their friends.†   (source)
  • In dramatic fashion, Mr. de Klerk announced the lifting of the bans on the ANC, the PAC, the South African Communist Party, and thirty-one other illegal organizations; the freeing of political prisoners incarcerated for nonviolent activities; the suspension of capital punishment; and the lifting of various restrictions imposed by the State of Emergency.†   (source)
  • I thanked the people of Cape Town, and I saluted Oliver Tambo and the African National Congress, Umkhonto we Sizwe, the South African Communist Party, the UDF, the South African Youth Congress, COSATU, the Mass Democratic Movement, the National Union of South African Students, and the Black Sash, a group formed by women that had long been a voice of conscience.†   (source)
  • These communists, what is it that they believe?†   (source)
  • Lily's husband was West Indian, and they were members of the Communist Youth Movement.†   (source)
  • First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.†   (source)
  • What if the Communists used the quarry as a machine-gun trench?†   (source)
  • And again I say out loud, "This is communist China?"†   (source)
  • How could eighteen years of communism be so easily influenced by six short weeks of capitalism?†   (source)
  • From what little he knew of Communism, he had expected everyone to be fairly equal.†   (source)
  • But the Communist Party was not a "State of Nature."†   (source)
  • Not that it was a mystery; everyone knew the communists had no class.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows he's a flaming communist.†   (source)
  • We are Young Pioneers, successors to Communism.†   (source)
  • We argued about positively everything: even communism!†   (source)
  • It's a shame he was a Communist!" the senator told his granddaughter.†   (source)
  • 'All lives are equal' is the basic tenet of Pan-Species Communism.†   (source)
  • The real secret was that communism crept into Kerala insidiously.†   (source)
  • In that sense, capitalism is 'progressive' because it is a stage on the way to communism.†   (source)
  • True, Richard had said much against the Communists, but that was once upon a time.†   (source)
  • Open street fighting has been observed, with city police siding with the Communists.†   (source)
  • First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.†   (source)
  • The seeds of Pan-Species Communism had sprouted long ago in the ancient East.†   (source)
  • "You look under any stone and a Communist jumps out!" he said.†   (source)
  • Nehru dismissed the Communist government and announced fresh elections.†   (source)
  • The first sentence in this manifesto says: A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.†   (source)
  • And Second Brother ran off to join the Communists two years after that.†   (source)
  • But I didn't know they were communist ideas!†   (source)
  • And the Communists did alter China in many positive ways.†   (source)
  • He is leading us to the first stage of communism.†   (source)
  • Mother said, "Now is he the one they're saying is a Communist?"†   (source)
  • It made a lot more sense to look at what Communism built.†   (source)
  • You have no business being there with all those Communists!†   (source)
  • No, they're idealists, too, and all of us idealists are dirty communists.†   (source)
  • —for evidence of poor U.S. leadership, the missile gap, and proof of the Communist threat.†   (source)
  • Ryan hoped they would succeed and make their transition from Communism to freedom.†   (source)
  • Before he became a communist, the young Marx was preoccupied with what happens to man when he works.†   (source)
  • That way, international communism would be further strengthened.†   (source)
  • Except that the high literacy level was largely because of the Communist movement.†   (source)
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