Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow summit in 1972, and Gerald Ford stopped in Warsaw en route to a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev in Helsinki in 1975. Even during the halcyon days of détente, this concern in Washington over provoking the Kremlin into moving more harshly against Eastern-Europe prevailed. Yugoslavia, which is Communist but nonaligned, and Rumania, the only Warsaw Pact country with no Soviet troops on its territory, were treated as special cases because of their independent foreign policies...
...industrial countries have kept a tight lid on their assistance to LDCs. Japan spends only 0.21% of its burgeoning G.N.P. on foreign aid, vs. a U.N. target of 0.7% for industrial nations; the U.S. figure is 0.27%. True, the U.S. carries the heaviest defense burden in the non-Communist world. But Congress has foolishly sought to forbid aid to countries producing goods that compete or even might compete with American products...
...glare of publicity that he so obviously finds distasteful. He is a man who wishes to let his books and his other accomplishments speak for themselves. Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, he was prevented from leaving the Soviet Union because of his staunch anti-Communist beliefs, yet still managed to create a worldwide audience for his views. Solzhenitsyn's criticism of the Soviet government and his advocacy of a return to imperial absolutism earned him expulsion from his home country in 1974, and widespread publicity for his views; his subsequent denunciations of Western nations for what...
...enterprises took the unusual step of advertising color-TV sets in major newspapers. Price: $520 in hard-to-come-by hard currency, the equivalent of more than three months' wages for the average citizen. The event even moved the political weekly Polityka to a rare spoof on the Communist Manifesto. Cracked an editorial: "The specter of football is haunting Poland...
...turns out, that hypothesis was mostly hyperbole, the outgrowth, perhaps, of fantasies spun by helpless Russians who in fact could scarcely utter a whisper against the system of mass police terror. Gulag HI marks a judicious turnabout: "The Communist regime has not been overthrown in sixty years, not because there has not been any struggle against it from inside, not because people docilely surrendered to it, but because it is inhumanly strong, in a way as yet unimaginable to the West...