Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japan's Communist daily Akahata, became the war's first press casualty last week when he was killed by a Chinese sniper's bullet at Lang Son. The Kyodo news agency first reported the original invasion. Tokyo's military sources also proved useful in tracing Soviet naval movements in the area...
...supported by black Rhodesians or international opinion. In fact, under the new constitution, whites will still dominate the army, judiciary and civil service. Moose feared that the election might lead to an escalation of the guerrilla war and direct involvement by "outside powers," meaning Cuba and the Soviet Union...
...creating a rule of law will be difficult for a country that has had virtually no formal legal system for almost two decades. After they came to power in 1949, the Communists issued some Soviet-style statutes, but the system withered away during the Cultural Revolution. Public trials were few and mainly for show; lawyers were almost nonexistent, and judges were largely untrained hi the law. In the late '60s the Peking People's Daily ran an editorial titled "In Praise of Lawlessness," condemning law as a bourgeois restraint on the revolutionary masses...
...Soviet bloc, going the Gideons one better...
...over the West, Bibles are as handy as the nearest paperback bookstore or hotel room. But for harassed Christians in the Soviet Union, a Bible can cost more than two weeks' wages on the black market. Things are almost as bad, and sometimes worse, in many satellite nations. To fill the deeply felt need of millions, at the height of the cold war freelance couriers began systematic efforts to smuggle books to Christians in Eastern Europe. Today Bible smuggling is carried on by a network of at least 40 Protestant organizations pursuing the world's most extraordinary missionary...