Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Kalb, who joined TIME last December after serving with CBS News in Hong Kong: "I spent the past three years as a China watcher, so I had some idea of how the official Communist mind works." Kalb was not prepared, however, for the major role that religion plays in Poland. "Here is 1,000 years of almost unbroken living tradition," he says. "It is easy to see how the church, with its music and ritual, could have become such a powerful attraction for the Poles." Wynn and Kalb also found it easy to see why Pope John Paul...
...covert operation by his former Minister of Information, Cornelius Mulder, to spend tens of millions of dollars in an illegal and secret effort to influence the news media. Retracting its own preliminary report that had exonerated Vorster, the commission concluded that he had lied in sworn testimony concerning his role in the whole affair. One witness testified that he had once asked Vorster whether the government itself was being blackmailed by Eschel Rhoodie, one of Mulder's key aides. "A thousand percent," Vorster is said to have replied. "He holds my ministers' political life in the hollow...
...power by toppling General Ignatius Acheampong last year, was unusual in two respects. First of all, it was Rawlings' second try in only a month; until being sprung by air force compatriots, he had been locked up in an Accra prison while being court-martialed for his role in plotting an abortive coup in May. Second, the overthrow of Akuffo's regime came only two weeks before elections that were supposed to restore civilian government to Ghana after 13 years of almost uninterrupted military rule. A spokesman for the newly installed Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which Rawlings...
Viet Nam's tilt toward Moscow became conspicuous in 1978. Hanoi first joined COMECON, the Soviet-bloc economic organization, then signed a 25-year treaty of friendship and cooperation with Moscow in November. The dramatic new Soviet military role in Indochina surfaced in February, when China invaded Viet Nam. Once proud of its self-reliant mobility, Hanoi has become virtually dependent on the Soviets for logistics and aerial reconnaissance...
...question keeps recurring: Who should control so pervasive a force? A Civil Rights Commission report last winter on the role of minorities on television complained that women, blacks and others, including Hispanics, Pacific Island Americans, American Indians and even Alaskan natives are underrepresented in or virtually absent from TV dramas. Composed in a spirit of bureaucratic pedantry, the report suggested that the Federal Communications Commission should lean on the networks a bit by formulating rules that would "encourage greater diversity...