Word: aikman
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...David Aikman...
Currently stationed in West Berlin as TIME'S Eastern European bureau chief, Aikman was the magazine's last staff correspondent to leave Cambodia, a few days before Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge...
...many of our correspondents, working on this report was the culmination of a deep, ongoing interest in socialism. Eastern Europe Bureau Chief David Aikman, for example, concentrated on modern Russian and Chinese history while a doctoral student at the University of Washington. As our Hong Kong correspondent, he covered the People's Republic of China. Traveling in Eastern Europe for this week's story, Aikman talked with a variety of individuals, from tractor drivers on collective farms to bank managers, and found that "few people had given a thought to socialism as a philosophical entity, and none were...
Adds TIME'S Aikman: "In Rumania, senior officials have their own villas and even relatively low party functionaries drive automobiles and receive a generous gasoline allowance. The son of Communist Party Boss Nicolae Ceau?escu races around Bucharest in a sleek Mercedes sports coupé. The perks for the Polish elite include special schools for their children and access to luxurious vacation camps and ski resorts. Traffic literally stops for East Germany's new class; at the approach of the imported Volvo limousines carrying the party's top brass, police halt all other movement on the streets...
Much the same is true in Eastern Europe, reports TIME Correspondent David Aikman. The human rights campaign is cheered not only by the active opponents of the harsh Communist regimes but also by most of the people, who fondly associate the policy with the kind of American evangelical fervor that prompted Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. As Soviet Dissident Andrei Amalrik told Aikman: "The morality of the West is human rights...