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...Welle in Russian and other languages of the U.S.S.R. provide generally reliable reporting and less ideological filler about events inside the Soviet Union than The Beacon, the nationwide hourly news program beamed from Moscow. The Western radio stations also offer Soviet listeners tantalizing glimpses of capitalist life through feature stories and interviews, while playing the siren song of rock and folk music, which are immensely popular among Soviet youth...
...Third World; and third, Soviet encroachments in mineral-rich Africa, the oil-rich Middle East and the sea lanes of the Pacific threaten the vital economic interests of the Western democracies and Japan. The Soviet Union is seen as exploiting?if not actually instigating?new problems for the capitalist world. "The Soviet tendency in recent years to take advantage of targets of opportunity?incrementally, deliberately, persistently?raises questions in Congress and among the public about the U.S.S.R.'s commitment to détente," Muskie told TIME last week. "It raises questions whether they really share our perception about the world, whether...
Unlike the capitalist economies of the West, which reward successful risk taking, the Soviet system rewards caution and conformity. Any plant manager who might be interested in experimenting with new ways of doing things runs the risk of failing to meet his assigned production or delivery quota, as traumatic a worry to a Soviet manager as the fear of red ink is to an American corporate executive. Observes Haverford College Sovietologist Holland Hunter: "Everyone finds the traditional way of doing things-no innovation-the most congenial. The supreme challenge is not to rock the boat. New styling or technology would...
Though Soviet officials are aware of the booming second economy, they generally ignore the dealings of Ivan the Terrible Capitalist. Major violators are sometimes arrested, and officers of the MVD'S Administration for Combatting the Embezzlement of Socialist Property and Speculation have infiltrated the black markets. But the Kremlin grudgingly accepts the underground economy because it fills the gaps left in the inefficient Soviet system, eases shortages and makes consumers' lives bearable. Collective-farm managers admit that often the only way to meet their production targets is to buy supplies on the black market. "If they tried...
...great patriotic war" (World War II). Still, its essence is defined as "reactionary." Judaism comes off less well, though the lexicon avoids antiSemitism. Zionism is dismissed as "an ideology of chauvinism and a policy of anti-Sovietism by the big Jewish bourgeoisie closely connected with imperialistic circles of capitalist countries...