Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signed the 1975 Helsinki accord. That agreement, among other things, calls for respect for human rights and a freer exchange of ideas and information between East and West. But Brezhnev interprets Helsinki very selectively. In his interview, he ignores the accord's provisions dealing with human rights and greater freedom while stressing the section that gives each signatory the right "to choose and develop its political, social, economic and cultural systems...
...assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
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...
Radio broadcasts by the new government repeated that freedom would be restored in Cambodia. The radio played songs about the cruelty of the former leaders and about an upcoming revival of traditional Cambodian life, including "A Mother's Call to Her Beloved Son to Rally to the Front to Save the Cambodian Motherland From Destruction...
Conservatives such as Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ar.) have accused Carter of treacherously betraying our faithful allies on Taiwan, that "bastion of freedom and democracy." But American 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...