Word: pro-soviet
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...experts anticipate the imminent renewal of a Sino-Soviet alliance. Says a Western diplomat in Moscow: "The Chinese have not changed their strategic posture, which holds that the real threat comes from the Soviet Union." Last week Peking once again attacked the Soviet Union as the "most dangerous source of war in the world today." In a reference to the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, which many Chinese interpreted as a move to encircle their country with pro-Soviet states, the People's Daily warned: "Don't forget Afghanistan...
...established violent groups to damage the economy in our region. The most violent attacks-kidnapings, terrorism-had great backing from the mistaken political thought of Mr. Jimmy Carter [a reference to Carter's tolerance for the Sandinista-led revolution in Nicaragua]. That is why Nicaragua is a pro-Soviet government today. Members of the U.S. Department of State, Venezuela, today. Members of the U.S. Department of State, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica and Mexico helped. But Cuba ended up being the leader. The same scheme was tried on us, but thank God we were able to react in time...
...French Socialists took advantage of the Communists' contradictory positions to try to discredit their junior partners, who lost almost half of their parliamentary seats in last year's elections. "Arrest Marchais-not Walesa," one Socialist loudspeaker trumpeted during a pro-Solidarity demonstration. Nor has the Communist Party's pro-Soviet attitude gone down well with the rank and file in France. A number of town and city councils, either dominated by or including Communist members, have passed resolutions backing Solidarity. In the giant 2.3 million strong Communist-led Confédération...
...intended to use General Wojciech Jaruzelski to break the back of the independent Polish trade union movement, Solidarity, and to restore order to both the country and Poland's Communist Party. Jaruzelski, so the report went, might be replaced as First Secretary of the party with a reliably pro-Soviet politician. The report cited martial law as one probable option that Jaruzelski might use to restore the party's supremacy in Poland...
Even when Soviet force is not on the move, the existence of so gargantuan a military machine threatens other states. It emboldens zealots within the Politburo who might be tempted to use this prowess, as well as pro-Soviet forces abroad who might hope that Moscow's leaders will aid or rescue their own bids for power...