Word: pro-soviet
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...dark and foreboding as the winter night, he hinted that Pakistan, already defeated, divided and demoralized, might be veering toward further fragmentation. "We refuse to be treated like East Pakistan," the tall, gray-maned Wali told TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, referring to the Frontier and Baluchistan provinces where his pro-Soviet National Awami Party predominates. He refused to speak openly of secession, but added ominously: "The potentialities are quite clear...
...Could the documents have been secret papers intended to ensure a warm reception for an important Chinese defector? One theory had it that the defector was former President Liu Shaochi, who had been in detention since he was purged as a pro-Soviet "revisionist" in 1967 during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Another candidate was Air Force Commander Wu Fahsien, a Politburo member who is on the outs with moderates because of his association with the wildest of the Red Guard units during the Cultural Revolution. As an ultraleftist, of course, Wu would hardly expect a warm welcome from...
...were, until the testimony of the witness who will probably never see this imperfect but indelible tribute. Like Tolstoy, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is, despite the anguished diary, wholly Russian, a man who "cannot contemplate living anywhere but in my native land." Still, Solzhenitsyn has earned a scathing tribute from one pro-Soviet apologist and enemy: "He has already defected with his soul...
...Russians had a specific choice for successor, it was more likely Sabry than Sadat. Former secretary-general of the Arab Socialist Union, Egypt's only political party, Sabry was the most pro-Soviet of all of Nasser's advisers. But he was a difficult choice to put over. Not only is his health almost as bad as Nasser's was-he has a heart condition-but his personality is about as drab as Sadat's. Nevertheless, Sadat is likely to share considerable power with Sabry and Interior Minister and former Chief of Intelligence Shaarawi Gomaa...
...talks with a couple of right-wing Indian parties to form an anti-Indira coalition. In public, some of the faction's orators savagely attacked the Prime Minister. Mrs. Tarakeshwari Sinha, for example, won heavy applause by charging that Indira was a "security risk" because of her apparent pro-Soviet leanings. Neither the negotiations nor the attacks, however, prevented the Syndicate from adopting much of Indira's approach in an effort to win popular support...