Word: 111th
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While American fans get ready for the 111th season of pro baseball, fans in South Korea eagerly await the start of No. 1, their very first season. In the Land of the Morning Calm, baseball is called yagoo, and since missionaries brought the game, nearly 70 years ago, it has become an avidly followed amateur sport. Playoffs among the country's 52 high school teams are so popular that they are televised during hours of low electrical demand so that the games will not cause brownouts. But somehow no one ever put together a pro league until this year...
...coincided with some reminders that armed intervention could ultimately enforce Moscow's injunctions. Members of the Warsaw Pact's Military Council, a phalanx of top-level generals, converged on the Bulgarian capital of Sofia last week for a three-day strategy meeting. Speaking in Moscow on the 111th anniversary of Lenin's birth, meanwhile, Soviet Politburo Member Konstantin Chernenko accused the West of trying to "destabilize" Poland and warned that "we will not allow anybody to infringe on the lawful interests of our country and our allies...