Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...units to combat guerrillas and, if possible, rescue their terrified victims. The senior service in the war against terrorism is Britain's 900-man Special Air Service Regiment. Founded in Libya in 1942 to penetrate the lines of Rommel's Afrika Korps, the S. A.S. has battled Communist guerrillas in Malaya, Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, and I.R.A. gunmen in South Armagh. Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include the 1972 rescue, at Lod Airport in Tel Aviv, of 90 hostages aboard a Sabena jet that...
...Warsaw last week rolled 1,000 copies of Poland's newest underground journal Glos (Voice). The issue should quickly become a collector's item. Tucked in among articles on philosophy and international affairs was a seven-page manifesto that constituted the boldest challenge to Poland's Communist regime since food strikes and riots paralyzed the nation in 1976. It may be one of the most important political documents to surface in Eastern Europe since the near revolution of October...
Though the manifesto did not say so outright, it was clear that its authors considered the Polish Communist Party to be the usurper and the Soviet Union the robber. Demanding the restoration of "sovereignty and democracy," the manifesto called for "freedom of belief, thought, speech, information, assembly and work." It insisted specifically on the right to strike, on free trade unions, abolition of censorship and complete reform of the electoral system...
Such freedoms have often been demanded by dissident Polish intellectuals in statements and open letters. But the Glos manifesto went much further in expressing outright resistance to the authority of the Communist Party itself. It differed in an even more significant way from the human rights appeals that have proliferated in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the past decade. Those appeals criticized Communist regimes for not putting existing laws into practice. The Polish declaration took issue with the laws themselves...
...before, Kosinski turns his hero's journeys into a travelogue of depravity. By the time Levanter is 15, he has already literalized the Oedipal drama with his mother and participated in the brutal rape of a teen-age girl at a Communist Party youth camp. Afflicted with a moral numbness, he now hovers like a kestrel over scenes of potential folly. Word that a Midwest U.S. hotel has booked a convention of the "Alliance for Small Americans," for example, sends Levanter flying to the scene; he wants to be on hand when the hotel discovers that its guests...