Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself defending the Administration's criticism of human rights violations by various Latin American governments against a chorus of officials who argued that terrorism is more of a menace (see following story). In Belgrade, differences between the Kremlin and the White House over human rights abuses in the Communist world-though they might temporarily be papered over at the conference-threatened to become a test of wills and even of East-West relations...
...imposing new $30 million conference center could glean what the minister had in mind. On the conference's opening day, prisoners in Soviet camps and jails in Perm, Mordovia and Vladimir, east of Moscow, sought to draw attention to their plight by going on hunger strikes. In various Communist and Western countries, demonstrators organized protests or stood in silent vigil in support of human rights. When 15 women from nine countries appeared in Belgrade to demonstrate on behalf of Soviet Jews, the Yugoslav security police swooped down on them in their hotel and deported them before they could...
Moscow was enraged by a White House report earlier this month that took Communist countries to task for a whole series of violations of the Helsinki provisions on human rights. Defending President Carter's active concern with the subject, the report argued that "interest in human rights does not constitute interference in the internal affairs of other states." In retaliation, the Kremlin denounced the new Administration and Carter personally in the strongest terms yet, stepped up a press campaign to expose human rights abuses (some real, some fancied) in the West, and undertook a new crackdown on human rights...
...last year, "would not after all be a bad thing. Severe unemployment lies ahead, and with a nationalized company, you can be sure that the state will somehow find a way to maintain the labor force." Dassault was talking about takeover by a left-wing government, should the Socialist-Communist opposition win the parliamentary election scheduled for next spring. Last week, however, a step toward nationalization came early, from a different direction. The government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announced that it was taking a 34% participation in Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation (1976 sales...
...schools. Still determined to become a doctor, Braun did what an increasing number of rejectees do each year: he looked abroad. Yet instead of going to Italy, Mexico or Belgium (TIME, April 16, 1973), he joined the small but growing cadre of Americans who are seeking their M.D.s in Communist Rumania...