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Word: communists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taiwan's defense: We have 17 million people trying very hard to preserve freedom and stability here. If any crisis should occur, they would unite to counter the challenge. If Communist China were to take military action against us, many people there would oppose it, and it would lead to an antiwar movement and perhaps even a civil war. That possibility will prevent the Communists from taking military action against Taiwan. You must [also] consider the natural barrier between us, the Taiwan Strait, which is 100 miles wide at its narrowest point and 120 miles at the broadest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Interview with Taiwan's President | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...China's "Four Modernizations": The Chinese Communists themselves understand that it won't be easy to achieve such an ambitious venture. Why, then, did they announce the program? The purpose was simply to fool the Americans and other foreigners, to attract their attention. The same is true of the "Big Character Posters" on Democracy Wall. The Four Modernizations were designed to give the outside world the impression that the mainland was going to turn into a huge market. But in fact no country can be modernized unless it can first modernize its thinking and its political system. Unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Interview with Taiwan's President | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...blush, does one popular song in North Korea stress the godlike omnipotence of President Kim II Sung, 67. As shrewd and tough as he is vainglorious, Kim since 1948 has been the dictator of a belligerent, doctrinaire state that for sheer xenophobia is rivaled only by Albania inside the Communist world. In pursuit of his goal of reuniting the Korean peninsula under his rule, Kim has gingerly begun to open up his country to the West. Two weeks ago, North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, was the site of the world table tennis championships and reunification talks between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH KOREA: Discipline and Devotion | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...established five criteria in selecting works for the anthology. One criterion states that "the observers were all to be the highest authorities and most distinguished experts in their fields..." Another says, "those known to have 'pro-communist China' points of view were to be entirely omitted as were works from socialist circles...

Author: By John Mcdargh and Mary ANN Z. kocur, S | Title: Publishing Under The Gun | 5/25/1979 | See Source »

...Korean Supreme Court ruled, however, that a publication judged as "benefitting an anti-state organization" could be considered a violation of the Anti-communist Law even if the author and publisher had no such intent...

Author: By John Mcdargh and Mary ANN Z. kocur, S | Title: Publishing Under The Gun | 5/25/1979 | See Source »

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