Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baluch tribe, $400 is the traditional fine for murder, while the penalties for causing bodily injuries start at $50. Fiercely clannish, the main Baluch tribes are headed by chieftains called sardars. Says Baluchistan Times Editor Fasih Iqbal: "A tribe follows its sardar. If he goes Communist, so goes the whole tribe...
...Chakar Khan, 28, secretary of the Baluchistan People's Liberation Front: "We're weaning them away from tribalism. Today they're beginning to understand that we're not fighting the whole of Punjab province, but only a ruling clique." While Chakar Khan dreams of a Communist "chain across the subcontinent," there are, in fact, no more than 600 fighters in his force. Apart from sanctuary, support from the new Moscow-leaning Afghan government of President Noor Mohammed Taraki seems nominal at best: 300 per person per day and 44 Ibs. of flour per person per month...
DIED. Boleslaw Piasecki, 63, Polish Communist official and chairman of the progovernment Roman Catholic organization called PAX; of a thrombotic ailment, Buerger's disease; in Warsaw. Jailed by the Soviets in 1944, he reportedly bartered for his freedom by agreeing to establish an association of "patriotic" Catholics. Founded in 1945, PAX was scorned by many Polish Catholics (including the present Pope) as a tool of the regime designed to split the church. Its influence began to wane in the early 1960s as Warsaw and Rome started seeking an accommodation. In 1971, Piasecki was appointed a member...
...Moscow, the Communist party newspaper Pravda said events in Cambodia marked "a victory over the reactionary dictatorial regime of Peking puppets." The Soviets recently signed a friendship and cooperation treaty with Vietnam...
...perspectives of the China situation have changed. In 1949, for example, Time Magazine named Chiang Kai-shek, the founder of the Nationalist regime, as its Man of the Year; this year, Time so honored PRC Vice-Premier Teng Hsiaoping. Just as we did not 'lose' China to the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, we are not 'abandoning' Taiwan in 1979. In addition, as America has learned, interfering in the internal disputes of Asian nations rarely rebounds to our advantage...