Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Western observers speculated that the arrests might mark an effort to silence the remaining dissident voices in the Soviet Union before the Olympic Games open in Moscow next July. Those seized represent several currents within the Soviet human rights movement...
...arrests and trials in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia have fostered a new spirit of unity among East bloc dissidents, who have launched a coordinated attempt to defend one another...
...groundwork was laid earlier this year at a Moscow meeting between Sakharov and a member of Poland's major human rights organization, the Committee for Social Self-Defense (KOR). After that, KOR publicly expressed solidarity with Soviet dissidents, and 15 Polish protesters staged a hunger strike on behalf of the Charter 77 organizers before their Prague trial...
Following the trial, Sakharov wrote an open letter to Charter 77 and KOR activists calling for the "unification of our struggle for human rights in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union...
...this year's disaster-movie sweepstakes, the film to beat is The Concorde -Airport '79. That hilarious-some might say seminal-extravaganza boasted such passengers as Susan Blakely as an investigative reporter, Cicely Tyson as a heart-transplant courier and Andrea Marcovicci as a Soviet Olympic gymnast...