Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four years later the party accepted the Socialists' idea of a Common Program. During that period of thaw, the P.C.F. dropped the notion of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" from its charter. As the Socialists increased in popularity, the Communists recoiled in envy. The Common Program fell apart prior to the 1978 legislative elections. Some old Communist habits made a comeback: the P.C.F. was the only Western European Communist party, for example, to endorse the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...justifying the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Soviet press proclaimed the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine: the U.S.S.R. reserves the right to use force in any "fraternal country" where it deems "socialism" to be in jeopardy. None of those interventions, whether in time of cold war or thaw, elicited from the West meaningful political and economic sanctions, to say nothing of military retribution. One of Brezhnev's diplomatic triumphs was the 1975 Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe at which 35 governments, notably including the Ford Administration, ratified the postwar order in Europe. De facto...
...very. Maybe ... And so on through the long Monday afternoon, the emotions buffeted by every bulletin-sinking at the report of White House Press Secretary James Brady's death; rising warily when the report is denied; a freeze at news that the President is undergoing surgery; a thaw when someone repeats a Reagan joke. Who was that fool who asked if the operation was going to be filmed? More questions still-the public's tensions not at all alleviated by the figure of Alexander Haig claiming "I am in control here," in a voice full of jelly...
When to go: If you're headed west, the general rule is sometime between late June (when the thaw ends) and Labor Day. Although blizzards have occasionally surprised backpackers as early as August, they generally don't occur until sometime in mid-September...
Other Communist Countries. Brezhnev saw little chance for an early thaw in Moscow's ideological cold war with Peking. But he did recognize a surprising degree of socialist diversity in Eastern Europe, such as Hungary's new system of profit-making farm cooperatives...