Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lithuania the Soviet-installed, Communist-controlled, erstwhile puppet parliament votes for independence from the Soviet Union...
...some of the gushing is getting out of hand. The most common bit of mush, endlessly repeated, whether the reporting is from China or the Soviet Union or Lithuania, is that once the genie of freedom is out of the bottle it can never be put back in. This is rank sentimentalism. The idea that somehow, if people ) have tasted freedom, the taste cannot be wrung out of them is a fallacy so large it is embarrassing just to hear it. Think only of this century. Russia tasted freedom in February 1917 and by October had lost...
Something is abroad in the games people play, or about to go abroad, anyway. Suddenly the globe is ready to play ball, with the Soviet Union leading off. In their hearts, the Soviets probably still think they invented baseball, or lapta, an innocent steppes-child that supposedly predates both British rounders and Tommy John. But the bench jockeying has quieted considerably since the Reds dropped an April game to the U.S. Naval Academy, 21-1, and their coach was heard to mutter, "Throw to second, not first. Second is the one in the middle...
...Soviet Union is just a piece of a new picture. Cleared to participate in the next Olympics, the National Basketball Association plans to contribute one team to a Milan tournament in October and assign two others to open next season in Tokyo. Japan's association with American baseball, of course, goes back to Babe Ruth. Just last November, on a typical All-Star tour, the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser capped his nearly scoreless autumn by yielding a Ruthian homer to Fujio Tamura of the Nippon Ham Fighters ("I was told he couldn't hit a curve ball"). But Japan is importing...
...China the forces for transformation bubble up from below, while in the Soviet Union they are marshaled from above. But in both cases there is recognition that the system needs a drastic overhaul. -- How far will China's hard-liners go to keep the lid on discontent? -- Presiding over the most freely elected legislature in his country's history, Gorbachev hears the clamorous voices of the people...