Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work, place him at the passionate focal point of the major issue that inflames dissent and frightens the men in the Kremlin today. The issue is Stalinism, the "past that is clawing to pieces our present days," as Soviet Writer Lydia Chukovskaya expressed it in a letter which circulated underground earlier this year...
...absolute tranquillity within the country." He was given at least a partial mandate. A few months later, his men quietly rounded up some 150 to 300 intellectuals in Leningrad. A new, sinister note crept into the charges: "Conspiracy to armed rebellion." The secret police claimed to have smashed an underground terrorist network, extending to arrests of related groups in Sverdlovsk and several towns in the Ukraine...
...SQUAD (ABC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Three young hipsters, Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III and Peggy Lipton, join the fuzz as underground agents in a mod war on crime. Premiere...
Since the Russian invasion, the Czech press has carried its battle for freedom to extraordinary lengths. Many top newsmen, fearing for their lives, have fled to the West, but others have carried on. After Russian troops marched in to close them down, most Czech papers published underground editions. Television newscasters managed to broadcast from studios over portable army transmitters, and C.T.K., the government news agency, opened a clandestine telex service. Editors sneaked past Russian surveillance to confer with Dubček's cooperative aides, promised to try to appease the Russians by imposing self-censorship...
Without Bitterness. Surprisingly enough, the majority of former priests have no sense of bitterness toward the church and still consider themselves Catholics in good standing. Many attend daily Mass and receive the sacraments. Still others celebrate Mass, either privately, for their new families at home, or in underground churches. St. Louis and Detroit, for example, have cells of former priests and nuns who meet regularly to discuss their common problems...