Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Around the world, the response reflected each country's stake in detente between China and the West. In Britain, which long ago recognized Peking with precious little to show for it so far, the Times rhapsodized: "The East Wind Is Kind." Moscow's Pravda restricted itself to a deadpan account of the U.S. table tennis team's visit to Peking. But the unspoken Soviet reaction could be judged from past editorials that inveighed against Sino-American "collusion" at Russia's expense. In Taipei, the China Times predictably warned in mixed metaphors that "the Chinese Communists hide...
Packed Politburo. In essence, the 24th Congress endorsed the leadership's present policies, which represented primarily a triumph of the status quo, or of "monolithic unity," as Pravda put it. It empowered Brezhnev to "cleanse" the party by expelling members, a device that would enable him to favor his backers. All present Politburo members retained their seats, but their order of seniority was changed, except for Brezhnev and Party Ideologue Mikhail Suslov, who remained No. 4. Dmitry Poliansky (TIME cover, March 29) rose from ninth to eighth position behind Kirill Mazurov, who advanced one step to No. 7. Gennady...
...February 23, with regard to American development of offshore oil in the region, Pravda carried an article blaming American aggression in Indochina on aspirations of the U. S. oil interests to get offshore oil along the coast of Indochina...
...that day. Once inside, she must wait on one line to find out how much the meat will cost, another to pay for the meat and a third to pick it up. Nor can Mrs. Cosmonaut complete her shopping at one or two places, since food shops are specialized. Pravda recently complained that "a consumer would not be surprised if he saw shops selling only noodles or bay leaves...
...described the uprising as proof that "the colonial rule of Soviet revisionist social imperialism in East Europe has fallen into a crisis, and that modern revisionism has gone further bankrupt." Poland, the Peking paper added, had become a "dependency of Soviet revisionism." For those comments, the Soviet party newspaper Pravda last week blasted China for "impudent interference" in Poland's internal affairs...