After the coup, which took place in 1973, Washington embraced General Pinochet as an anti-Communist ally and muffled criticism of his Government's murderous repression.

In July 1919, these anti-Communist allies established the independent state of Transcaspia.

The new, repressive regime of General Augusto Pinochet received warm approval and increased military and economic assistance from the United States as an anti-Communist ally.

Reagan administration officials saw the apartheid government as a key anti-communist ally.

This also resulted in the severing of ties with the United States' longtime anti-Communist ally the Republic of China.

Nevertheless, some of the 250 American diplomats in Zaire say it is important to continue backing this dependable, anti-Communist ally.

Indonesia was supported materially and diplomatically by the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom who regarded Indonesia as an anti-communist ally.

Once ruled by an anti-Communist ally, Mobutu Sese Seko, Congo has been ravaged by four and a half years of war; more than three million people have died.

Some years back, the United States learned that a policy of "anything goes" for a staunch anti-Communist ally brought catastrophic consequences.

Instead, by the early 1950's, the West accepted Franco as an anti-Communist ally.