Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover and has lunched with New York Mafia heads involved in the trade. "Despite all the political verbal pyrotechnics, cocaine is cheaper and more plentiful than it ever was," says Beaty. "The drug cartels are posing a greater threat to U.S. national security than any bands of ragtag Communist insurgents. That is a lesson still to be learned...
...they come to play or stay? Disappearing athletes, dozens of them, from Communist countries underscored the fact that for some participants the Games can present a wholly unathletic set of opportunities. First the Rumanians: three speed skaters and a coach slipped away the night after opening ceremonies, before any of them competed. A few days later two Chinese speed skaters and a coach flew home, again before racing. Injuries, explained Chinese officials. Then there was the emigration of Soviets en masse from Calgary: 55 left prematurely, some of them ski jumpers returned to sender because, a Soviet official said...
...drawn to explain the administration's lack of action toward South Africa--especially in the face of its whole-hearted support for the Nicaraguan contras. One, the administration is ignorant of the facts. Two, the administration regards illegal foreign acts important only if they are committed by a communist government. Three, the administration approves of the system of apartheid. Any one of these conclusions is readily believeable, but not one of them is excusable. It is inconceivable that an administration that claims such a fervent commitment to the principles of freedom and democracy on the one hand could issue...
...East Germany's normally stolid Neues Deutschland, it was a rare scoop. The Communist Party daily reported last week that Soviet troops were preparing to dismantle the first of 54 SS-12 nuclear missiles in East Germany that are scheduled to be scrapped under the U.S.-Soviet intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty. The move came as the accord continued to meet stiff opposition during a U.S. Senate debate over its ratification...
Though normally regarded as anti-Communist, the Polish Pope in this instance was equally critical of capitalism and Marxism. Each, said the Pontiff, "harbors in its own way a tendency toward imperialism" and employs "structures of sin" in seeking wealth and influence in the world's poor nations. What they desperately need, said he, is "impartial aid from all the richer and more developed countries...