Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front on which no other American would agree to serve. This foundation was set up in the words of its leaders "because there is a systematic, well-organized, well-financed attack on South Africa, conducted on a world scale by a number of organizations supported by Afro-Asian and Communist interests." And while Engelhard was busy telling American detractors that U.S. corporate involvement could play a constructive role in helping bring South Africa's black majority toward full political participation, his foundation's book, South Africa in the Sixties, was arguing that "in regard to overall direction, white hegemony...
...dealing simply with a set of identical Communist regimes behind the Iron Curtain. Installed and maintained by Soviet arms they may be, but they have had to adapt in ways that reflect the peculiar priorities and aspirations of each country. Nationalism remains the potent force in Eastern Europe--far more so than competing ideologies of either liberalism or Communism--at least in terms of immediate mass appeal. We tend to forget that independence for countries there is a relatively recent and hard-won prize--less than 100 or in some cases 50 years old. Stability for Eastern European regimes depends...
...identity, is allowed a privileged if not official role in the State: in return, the Patriarch and his fellow bishops acknowledge their part in "building up Socialism," and confine their interests to liturgical and non-political activity. The regime remains one of the tightest and most Stalinist in the Communist world--and it is there that the trade-off lies...
...potential Achilles heel is the ethnic minorities question--three-quarters million Hungarians and one half million Germans, living mainly in Transylvania. Their direct contacts with Hungary and East Germany are severly restricted by the regime: for although these countries may be Communist also, their nationalist affinity with their Transylvanian kin is too close and potentially separatist for comfort. It is highly significant that the most serious recent opposition to Ceaucescu was the Transylvanian miners' strike, where most of the leaders arrested were Hungarian speaking...
...religion is underlined by huge outdoor folk Masses and an incredible number of new church buildings), the Church's traditional role as a focus for national sentiment is being linked with that of a natural and legal focus for an alternative structure of allegiance to that of the Communist Party. While the pulpit remains uncensored, though priests sign human rights petitions and the Primate and his fellow bishops criticize the government on social issues, the regime is caught in a dilemma of choosing between semi-toleration or repression...