Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former TIME Moscow bureau chief and a veteran of Richard Nixon's trips to Russia and China in 1972, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter is as familiar with the Marxist way of life as anyone on our staff. He added a tropical socialist stamp to his passport recently as one of 29 journalists traveling to Cuba with Senators Jacob Javits and Claiborne Pell and remained on the island after the Senators' departure to report this week's World story on the status of Fidel Castro's revolutionary experiment...
...What struck me most about Cuban socialism," says Schecter, "is that it seems informal compared with China and the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Despite strong totalitarian control, the presence of police and armed forces in the streets is not as apparent as in other socialist countries." Cuban authorities went out of their way to smooth the visit of Schecter and his colleagues, allowing the newsmen to fly in directly from Miami despite the absence of U.S.-Cuban diplomatic relations and providing them with special telex facilities. The citizen on the street proved equally genial. "On a walking tour...
...agents stood quietly by while more than 10,000 spectators inspected some 150 paintings done in a variety of contemporary styles, including abstract, surrealist, impressionist and pop. All of these have been expressly forbidden to Soviet artists, who are supposed to hew to the woodenly representational standards of socialist realism...
Gierek has shown great flexibility in ideology and politics. Poland, in fact, since the Stalinist days when it was a dispirited Soviet satellite, has turned into a rather un typical socialist state. Private farm ownership is tolerated, ordinary citizens are comparatively free to travel abroad, and churches are packed on Sundays - all made accept able to the Soviet Union by internal stability and a close adherence to Moscow in foreign policy...
...CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS: One can be a good Catholic, like most Poles, and be an active participant in the construction of a socialist society at the same time-as most Poles are. We have never considered the church a challenge to the Polish Communist Party or our system, and in fact the church has never tried to endanger the system or the party. We, on our part, have never tried to endanger the church. In both our practice today and our endeavors for the future, we will not attempt to minimize the role of the church in Poland...