Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some extent, the visit was part of a broad tactical maneuver by the Communist regime of János Kádár. On the brink of next month's talks on the Helsinki accord, Hungary is eager to brush up its image and counteract complaints about church restrictions from both Hungarian and U.S. Christians. In fact, Hungary probably has the most liberal church policy among Warsaw Pact countries. Sunday schools and youth retreats are permitted. Bibles, though expensive, are available. Even so, open evangelism and freedom of church publication in the Western sense are unknown. Evangelical Christians...
...current U.S. soccer boom contrasts sharply with the state of the sport in 1969, when the N.A.S.L. was down to five teams and on the brink of bankruptcy. Then Phil Woosnam took charge as league commissioner and rebuilt the sport. The N.A.S.L. now consists of 18 teams in cities from Vancouver to Tampa, and Woosnam expects to expand to 24 by next season. Says he: "It's the best investment in sports. Right now, all you need is $250,000 cash and the ability to cope with some initial losses." He seems to be right; half a dozen owners...
...Glenna Brink Modesto, Calif...
...working and retired members of the U.M.W. prepare to vote next week. Yet the election could not be more pivotal. With its leadership preoccupied by bitter intramural power struggles and its membership caught up in a seemingly endless series of wildcat strikes, the U.M.W. has reached the brink of disintegration-just when President Carter's energy policy calls for a two-thirds increase in coal production by 1985. If the election fails to produce peace and competent leadership for the mine workers, the forthcoming coal boom could well bust the union. Companies will either start negotiating contracts...
...Government abandoned all expectations of obtaining cooperation from the Russians-even in balming the wounds of war let alone in fashioning a new world order. In Asia, China was on the verge of falling to Mao. Of most concern to Americans, however, was Europe, which teetered on the brink of a general economic collapse that seemed beyond the capacity of her ever divided nations to forestall...