Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constant referrals in the Soviet press to China's "Nazi aggression" and "Peking blitzkrieg" are calculated to stir up traumatic memories of the devastation and suffering caused by the German invasion. Very few Soviet citizens are aware that the Chinese army is not designed, trained or equipped to invade Soviet territory. As perceived by the Soviets, their Chinese neighbor constitutes a potential plague of locusts, voracious and unstoppable. Said one senior Soviet official duck" TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan last week: "Try to imagine how you would feel if Mexico had a billion people, nuclear weapons...
...normalization of relations with the U.S., the Soviet propaganda apparatus has been working overtime to indict the Chinese. Peking's rulers have been accused of everything from planning germ warfare to running the world narcotics trade to assassinating President Kennedy. The polemical tone carries over from the popular press into the theoretical world of scholarship. One recent monograph printed by the Institute of the Far East of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (there is a similar institute devoted to American studies) is called Destinies of Culture in the People's Republic of China. It makes the charge that...
...party won in Scotland a surprising 30% of the vote in general elections and took over eleven seats in Parliament. By then Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, had won three seats. So the minority Labor government, troubled by the nationalists' inroads on traditional Labor strongholds, decided to press for devolution...
...vote was a blow to Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, who is already beset by a sharp slide in the polls and a Labor rebellion against his anti-inflation program. But the referendum is not binding, and he can still press for a Scottish assembly, citing the majority vote for it. As long as Callaghan can hold out some hope for the nationalists, he is assured of their support for a while longer, at least...
...sent to Congress a weak program of standby fuel-saving measures that included a ban on Sunday gasoline sales, a requirement to turn down thermostats in public buildings and restrictions on illuminated outdoor advertising. Whatever limited value the package may have had was undercut when the President told a press conference: "We don't have any present intention of implementing any of those measures...