Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...combination of factors, coalescing at an opportune moment, led to the Gdansk revolution. Among them: wide spread discontent with unsatisfactory living conditions, relative freedom (in a Communist state, that is) for dissenting political activists, the presence of able political organizers waiting in the wings to assume leadership, and a population quite accustomed to rebelling against authority...
...aspire to live and work in affluent urban centers of white South Africa. While he hopes to see a broad, peacefully negotiated pact that will bring blacks into the South African power structure, he is not optimistic. The violence that has scarred urban ghettos like Soweto, he believes, could spread to the homelands...
Finally, Moscow is increasingly concerned that Poland's heresy will take hold in other East bloc countries, possibly in the Soviet Union itself. Says Marshall Goldman,'associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "If the Poles get away with it, the Russians know it will spread." Already, reports are multiplying that tiny free trade union movements may be cropping up in other Soviet satellites. The first explicit confirmation came in a speech, published only last week but delivered a month earlier by Jan Fojtik, a Czechoslovak party ideologist. "In connection with the events in Poland...
...pronged propaganda assault kept Solidarity on the defensive-just as Moscow had hoped. Union leaders felt compelled to issue a statement denying that Solidarity was trying to spread "chaos and anarchy." Said the union: "We believe that negotiations are the best way to meet understandable worker demands and defend social interests." After months of steadily intensifying demands, Solidarity's leaders late last month declared a moratorium on strikes and urged the impatient rank and file to give the government some breathing space. Not only was the strike moratorium being heeded last week, but two of Solidarity's more...
...workings of the government" and even of "lies and untruths." Peres was somewhat more circumspect in his criticism. But after the dramatic Israeli raid on Entebbe in 1976, the Defense Minister let it be known that Rabin had been "forced" by the Cabinet to authorize the raid. Peres privately spread the word that he considered Rabin to be a "weak" Prime Minister who should be replaced...