Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians have a special phrase to describe their relationship with the Eastern European Communist countries within their sphere of influence. It is sotsialisticheskoe sodruzhestvo, which, translated into English, has a reassuring and almost beneficent ring: Socialist Commonwealth. Since the invasion of Czechoslovakia, however, the term has acquired a new and ominous meaning. It has come to reflect a departure in Soviet policy that some people suggest should be called the Brezhnev Doctrine, after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, whose brutal and brusque attitude toward the Czechoslovak leaders has made him a symbol of the Soviet Union's belligerent mood...
...Soviets have always regarded it their duty to defend Communism against the imperialists. But now, as enunciated by Soviet Foreign Secretary Andrei Gromyko at the U.N. and by Pravda, the official party newspaper, the Soviet Union asserts the right to intervene in any member country of the Socialist Commonwealth where the purity or supremacy of the party might be threatened. Diplomats are uncertain whether the pronouncement represents only an after-the-fact rationalization for the invasion of Czechoslovakia or whether it is a major development in Soviet doctrine that could justify the dispatch of Red Army troops into other socialist...
...popularity remains so high among Czechoslovaks that any move to overthrow him would most likely require direct Soviet military action and perhaps even the creation of a military government. Under those circumstances, the Kremlin leaders still seem reluctant to pursue their claims of total domination of the Socialist Commonwealth to the final logical, if bloody, conclusion...
Harvard students who would like to spend tonight at the chapel are asked to contact Barry Finer (864-0638, Winthrop F33) during the day, or to meet outside the chapel, on Commonwealth Avenue, at 10 p.m. The number of supporters has increased each night, and for the past three nights, over 400 people have stayed overnight in the chapel...
Cambridge police officers have asked for pay raises that would put them among the highest-paid policemen in the Commonwealth...