Word: communique
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...military's roundup of suspected extremists continued, with more than 2,000 under arrest by the end of the week, and the offices of some 150 labor unions were closed down. The junta also ordered citizens to remove all political slogans from their walls. Said a martial law communiqué: "Everyone is responsible for his own wall. If you cannot afford new paint, you should call the martial law authorities in your neighborhood and they will provide...
...Managua, Nicaraguans went wild with joy. Thousands of people poured into the streets, singing and dancing and setting off fireworks. Said a journalist in Managua: "Somoza finally brought happiness to his countrymen." The leaders of the ruling Sandinista junta denied any direct role in the assassination. In a brief communiqué, they called it ajusticiamiento-justifiable execution -reminding their followers that the dictator had been responsible for the deaths of 100,000 Nicaraguans. Concluded one Sandinista simply: "Divine justice...
...week's end strike leaders and government negotiators announced agreement on "a formula designed to bring Poland back from the brink, hundreds of shipyard workers cheered, one of their leaders read a communiqué stating that they would be permitted to form an "independent, self-governing trade union." After speedy approval from the Communist Party Central Committee in Warsaw, the strike leaders indicated that they would order their followers back to work this week...
Despite the escalating battle of communiqués, military analysts were doubtful that China was preparing another "punishing" incursion into Viet Nam, like the one that took place 17 months ago. But Hanoi is ready. Since that invasion, the Vietnamese government has engaged in the most massive mobilization effort in the country's war-clouded history. In the space of a year, Hanoi has doubled the size of its regular army to about 60 divisions of some 1 million men. With more than 2.6 million men under arms-many of them in a highly trained, combat-ready militia-Viet...
...periods of East-West tension, passages from its pages are quoted in the Western press like captured battlefield communiqués. Specialists in Bonn, London, Paris and Washington sift through its stilted, often impenetrable prose searching for subtle shifts in foreign policy. Photographs of the ruling elite are scrutinized for changes in status, and cartoons are scoured for arcane political references. "Pravda," says its editor, Victor Afanasyev, "is read on the lines and between the lines...