Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harriet Watt's career in journalism began in 1945, when she became business manager of TIME's Shanghai bureau. She did not last long. Nor did the bureau. As the Communist forces of Mao Zedong swept to power in 1949, Watt's TIME colleagues were evacuated to Hong Kong and she followed. The Communists were not sorry to see her go. Recalls Watt, now 70: "They considered me a running dog of the imperialists...
Uzbekistan, one of the Soviet Union's 15 republics, is rich in cotton, fruit -- and corruption. According to Pravda and other publications, the republic's leading government and Communist Party officials shared in the embezzlement of $6.5 billion during the 1970s and early 1980s. They also permitted Mafia-style crime families to thrive on such supposedly capitalist rackets as drugs, prostitution, gambling and murder for hire. A number of officials helped themselves to the republic's cotton-growing revenues by overstating the size of the republic's cotton crops, then skimming off part of the proceeds. Among those recently arrested...
...incredibly ambitious task facing the Arias Peace Plan. Despite all the lofty rhetoric that prevailed in the House chamber this week, the chances of bringing peace and democracy to Nicaragua, a country that has never known either, remain slim. Forty years of Somoza rule and another eight of a communist regime have left the country with precious little democratic institutions and heritage...
...issue for two weeks and has put the contras among the top foreign policy priorities for his final year in office. Only a day earlier, Reagan had offered one final compromise giving Congress more say in the military aid. He argued that failure to extend aid would strengthen communist influence in the hemisphere...
Afterward Defense Secretary Rafael Ileto quit, complaining of insufficient support for his efforts to strengthen the armed forces in the face of a Communist insurgency and a dissident movement within the military, and Aquino was forced to carry out a Cabinet shuffle. Ileto's successor: Armed Forces Chief of Staff Fidel Ramos, 59, one of the heroes of the 1986 military revolt that deposed former Dictator Ferdinand Marcos...