Word: unionize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country, however, paid a high price for economic progress: wages remained low, hours were long and factory workers had little, if any, union protection. Park brooked no opposition, either from his colleagues or his citizenry; he even altered the constitution with three "revitalizing" amendments that in effect turned the presidency into a near dictatorship. But not even the efficiency of his omnipresent Korean Central Intelligence Agency could prevent the growth of an opposition that included Christian church leaders as well as restless students. Park's repression proved embarrassing to Washington, especially after the election of Jimmy Carter...
Ustinov's blast from the pages of Pravda sounded the shrillest note in a Soviet propaganda campaign that has gathered unusual force. The objective: to head off the deployment in Western Europe of nuclear missiles aimed, for the first time, at the Soviet Union itself. The rest of the controlled Soviet press pulled out all the stops in cautioning about the dangers of a new arms race. Uniformed generals made rare personal appearances on 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...
...higher in the current proposal: to modernize NATO's theater nuclear forces with the deployment of 572 mobile, intermediate-range cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western European countries, as a counterforce to the more than 100 advanced multiwarhead SS-20 missiles already stationed in the western Soviet Union...
...disarmament conference to promote further ''military detente in Europe.'' As the most tempting carrot of all, he announced the unilateral withdrawal over the next year of as many as 20,000 Soviet troops and 1,000 tanks from East Germany. Brezhnev also said the Soviet Union would reduce the number of its medium-range nuclear missiles along its western frontier, provided NATO deploys no new ones...
...harshest invectives, however, were leveled against the U.S., which was accused of endangering detente by placing new weapons not covered by SALT II on the doorstep of the Soviet Union. Fumed Central Committee Official Valentin Falin: "How would the U.S. have reacted if we, the Soviet Union, after concluding SALT II, started bringing medium-range weapons closer to their territory?" To drive home the argument, TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan reported, other officials privately drew a parallel with Cuba in 1962. One Moscow editor told him: "There was a crisis when you thought missiles in Cuba could...