Bella Abzug’s past Communist affiliations are a matter of public record, as is her lifelong enthusiasm for pro-Communist regimes in places like Vietnam and Nicaragua. The media, nonetheless, failed to note the oddity of a one-time sympathizer with totalitarianism serving as the standard-bearer for human rights at the United Nations later conference in Peking.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n6_v48/ai_18177764
Very pathetic.