Word: communists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ginzburg, 42, was constantly harassed and finally imprisoned for writings critical of Communist life. He further antagonized authorities by becoming a self-appointed monitor of Moscow's compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accord. He was brought to trial once again last summer for his role in helping political prisoners with a fund set up by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Defiant as ever, he was sentenced to eight years of hard labor...
During the climactic years of the Viet Nam War, the Communist forces crossed the Cambodian border and established a whole network of secret bases, which they relied on to shelter and resupply their troops. To attack these "sanctuaries," the U.S. bombed the Cambodian countryside, then launched an armored "incursion" into the once neutral nation. Now a book by William Shawcross, who covered the war for the Sunday Times of London from 1970 to 1972, challenges that U.S. policy and charges that it contributed to the Communist takeover...
Left-and right-wing extremist groups claimed responsibility for the bombing, which both explained as an attack on Rome's Communist municipal administration. Whoever did the deed, the blast was only part of a surge in mayhem that has paralleled the campaigning for the June election that is to produce Italy's 42nd postFascist government. Since early April, after Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti's attempt to form another Cabinet was stillborn because the Communists refused to support it, Italy has been racked by new violence...
Much as it first breached the Bamboo Curtain of Mao Tse-tung's China in 1971, Ping Pong served the cause of diplomacy last week and opened a crack in the very closed door of another Communist Asian country: North Korea. To the cheers of waving schoolchildren lining scrubbed and decorated streets, 900 table-tennis players from 70 countries-including the U.S., but not South Korea and Israel-arrived in Pyongyang for a 13-day world championship. TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold was among the few Western journalists in North Korea. His report from the rarely glimpsed capital...
DIED. Pyotr Pospelov, 80, leading propagandist, historian and theoretician for the Soviet Communist Party and for twelve years editor of Pravda; in Moscow. A malleable and therefore durable ideologue, Pospelov maintained his credit with the party through several changes in its leadership. He demonstrated his political flexibility most dramatically in 1954 by calling for "peaceful coexistence with the West" three years after his vituperative railings against the U.S. had triggered the U.S.S.R.'s "Hate America" campaign...