Word: aikman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Dublin to Bangkok, and then into Phnom-Penh. The Irish dairy and sugar industries, a supermarket chain and a tobacco company donated the supplies, and the Irish government provided $80,000 for flight costs. That mercy mission, as Philips told his brother-in-law, TIME Staff Writer David Aikman, afforded a rare glimpse of the grim reality inside Cambodia...
...United Bible Societies reports that it has legally delivered 12 million Bibles or New Testaments to Eastern Europe since World War II. Many of these were later confiscated, however, or were simply unavailable to common people. TIME'S David Aikman, who has just completed a tour as Eastern Europe bureau chief, reports that a Christian's chances of buying a Bible openly are currently good in Poland, erratic in East Germany, difficult in Czechoslovakia and Hungary (where the purchaser's name may go directly into a government dossier), extremely difficult in Rumania, virtually impossible in the Soviet...
Happily, the invasion did little damage to Prague, one of Europe's best-preserved and most charming capitals. Even the minor scars have largely disappeared, cabled TIME Correspondent David Aikman from that city last week. "Wenceslas Square, the city's kilometer-long main street, has seldom looked better. There is no sign of tension among Czechs lining up around street vendors to buy ice cream or to window-shop during their brief lunch hour. The large number of uniformed police could be accounted for -nominally at least-by a complicated new system of traffic flow in the city...
Though they are out of sight, the mere presence of Soviet troops on Czechoslovak soil has created a palpable sense of oppression. Husák's nonstop propaganda mill, justifying the troops as well as the invasion itself, has virtually deadened Czechoslovak sensibilities. The result, reports Aikman, is that most of the country has settled into an apathetic limbo. After 1968, the new regime purged 326,817 members, from the Czechoslovak Communist Party; today, having re-expanded, it claims 1.9 million members, vs. 1.7 million in 1968. Former First Secretary Dubček, now 56, is a watchman...
Hats off to David Aikman [July 31], who has the clarity of mind, the moral sense and the courage to expose the blind cruelty of Marxism when that atheistic, deterministic system runs its course unrestrained by Christian principles...