Word: anti-communist
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Ever since the Soviets invaded Afghanistan last December, one of the most stubborn concentrations of anti-Communist Muslim resistance has been among the clannish Pushtun tribesmen of rugged Kunar province, near the Pakistan border. Six weeks ago, Soviet military commanders made the narrow river valleys and inaccessible mountains the target of their first major field offensive. Seven full combat battalions rolled into the province with the apparent mission of cutting rebel supply lines by sealing the porous border. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss managed to get across the frontier from Peshawar, Pakistan, for five days and linked up with fighting units...
...equation was ambitious Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi, 46. Before, he had persistently refused to join any alliance that did not also include Enrico Berlinguer's Communists. When the Christian Democrats last month ruled out any such deala reflection of stiffening anti-Communist public opinion in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistanthe Socialists withdrew their tepid support of Cossiga's minority government. Since then, however, Craxi has decided to switch rather than fight: exploiting a tilt to the right in his own party, he persuaded his central committee to back him in joining...
...south); and to the Salang Pass and the Soviet frontier (the north). Other helicopter forces-sky caravans in what was once a land of camel caravans -fly farther, on missions and reinforcement flights to the eastern provinces of Paktia and Kunar, where a spring offensive against the mujahidin, the anti-Communist guerrillas, is under...
TODAY CENSORSHIP is not as blatant. But the Revolutionary Party's decree No. 42, which empowers the government to close down papers with no legal recourse, and the all-embracing Anti-Communist law, remain ominous threats. "With no pre-publication censorship, editors play a dangerous game," Yoon says. "You take a gamble every time you go to press. You go as close to the truth as you dare, but you never know when you'll be shut down for something that appears in the morning paper...
...charges against the defendants stem from their association with Formosa, a now banned magazine that had called for representative elections, free speech and an end to martial law, which was imposed in 1948 as an anti-Communist measure. Moreover, Formosa had been sympathetic to the aspirations of native Taiwanese who desire a greater voice in the island's government, which has been dominated for three decades by mainland Chinese in the Kuomintang Party...