Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outrage at Kim's expulsion quickly spread to the volatile university campuses. Following a series of antigovernment rallies, major riots erupted in the southern port city of Pusan. More than 3,000 students, joined by older demonstrators, charged through the streets, attacking government buildings. A total of 73 policemen were injured, and scores of demonstrators arrested. The protests spread to the industrial city of Masan. Park responded with a crackdown-ordering virtual martial law in both cities...
...television, to talk about "the peace policy of the Communist Party." Soviet officials in Moscow, unusually attentive to Western journalists, argued that the missile build-up was an attempt by the U.S. to circumvent SALT II. Communist parties and other left-wing groups in Western Europe were enlisted to spread the word that the U.S.S.R. might have to take unspecified steps to strengthen its security...
...seize the dollar deposits that Moscow had in New York City banks, so they transferred the cash to London. After moneymen began lending the state less dollars to companies in Europe, U.S. bankers and businessmen recognized a promising new source of capital. The lending of hard foreign currencies soon spread out from London. Among the first to handle such loans was the Soviet-owned Banque Commerciale pour I'Europe du Nord in Paris, which has the telex address "Eurbank." The offshore dollars thus were first called Eurobank dollars and then simply Eurodollars...
Still, Fraser has a yen to see European-style ''co-determination'' spread in the U.S. In West Germany, Sweden and Denmark, workers sit on supervisory boards. Studies suggest that they have little impact on corporate policy-for good or ill. Notes one German industrialist...
...made a lot of people listen," one demonstrator said as he spread the antinuclear word among lunching brokers. Television and newspapers spread the message too, attracted to the scene by the more than 1000 demonstrators willing to go to N.Y. jails...