Word: easterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that nothing could contain the virus of Communist expansion, pundits attempted to assure the West that most Marxist regimes took power only with the force of outside arms. On its own, Communism took root only in benighted countries like czarist Russia and feudal China. The more advanced countries of Eastern Europe -- Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland -- had the Marxist-Leninist system thrust upon them on the point of a Soviet Red Army bayonet...
Moody, who joined TIME as a correspondent in Bonn in 1982, is no stranger to social unrest. As TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief from 1983 to 1985, he covered protests by the then illegal Solidarity union. Says Moody: "The riot police in Poland, the ZOMO, can be tough, but at least both they and the demonstrators knew they were Poles, fellow countrymen. In Panama I sense an alienation between the police and the people that may take a long while to overcome...
Once hailed as the most liberal Communist leader in Eastern Europe, Janos Kadar has become a political pariah in his own country. Following his ouster as General Secretary last May after almost 32 years in power, Kadar, 76, remained party president. Last week Kadar was stripped of the largely ceremonial job and expelled from the Central Committee...
This year, the results could be different. Especially for the heavies, whose closet margin of victory over an Eastern team was a three second win over Princeton at the Redwood Shores Regatta in mid-April...
Only Brown remains on Radcliffe's list of crews to defeat this season. A win over the defending champs, as well as other top Eastern crews, and the Black and White will earn its second Sprints title in three years and fourth since...