Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOSCOW--Britain has ordered eight Soviet diplomats and three journalists out of the country for alleged espionage, and the Soviet Union has retaliated with an identical set of expulsions, the British Embassy said Sunday...
Britain said its expulsions were legitimate and that the Soviet response was unjustified. The Soviet Union had no immediate comment on either set of expulsions...
...also urged the Soviet Union to cease an alleged buildup of intelligence gathering in Britain, saying that was an area excluded from the general improvement in relations between the countries...
Jeremy Harris of the British Broadcasting Corp., Ian Glover-James of Independent Television News and Angus Roxburgh of the Sunday Times of London also were given two weeks to leave the Soviet Union, Lyne said...
Attempts at economic and political reform in China, the Soviet Union and other Communist countries often seem to consist of two steps forward and one or even two steps back. In China the recent rash of student-led mass demonstrations is just the latest manifestation of deep public discontent over the price of economic reform. In the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev's position has been similarly threatened as the benefits of perestroika have thus far failed to match the short-term costs...