Word: communique
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...copies of a photograph distributed by the Red Brigades showing Dozier with a bruise under his left eye and holding a placard inscribed with leftist slogans. It read, in part: "The crisis of capitalism generates an imperialist war. Only an anti-imperialist civil war can end the war." A communiqué, the second that authorities have received from Dozier's captors, and a separate 188-page document accompanied the photo. The rambling tract, titled "Strategic Directives December 1981," was the first discussion of the Red Brigades' new policy of violent confrontation with NATO. It also called on other...
...Libyan attempt on President Reagan or some other U.S official, terror struck from a different, and unexpected, quarter. A few grim facts came in an anonymous telephone call to the ANSA news agency in Milan: "This is the Red Brigades. We have kidnaped Brigadier General James Dozier. A communiqué will follow...
...Gleneagles, Scotland, NATO defense ministers endorsed the doctrine of "flexible response" and the NATO plan for deployment of the theater nuclear weapons. But implicitly recognizing the growing power of the neutralists, the NATO ministers' communiqué also supported a plan favored by the peace movement, the so-called "zero solution" under which both Soviet and American theater nuclear weapons would be removed...
...emergence of independent labor movements throughout the Soviet bloc. The last resolution was presumably the main source of the "anti-Sovietism" complained of by Moscow. The Council of Ministers' statement ended with an ominous vow to undertake "definite measures" for the "defense of socialism." A similar Politburo communiqué had previously warned of a "possible confrontation threatening bloodshed...
...Walesa seems to have shepherded the union once again down the path of moderation. The final Gdansk communique called for a halt to further food protests until the second half of Solidarity's national congress ends in mid-October. Citing the country's "serious economic and social situation," the resolution also urged workers to give up eight free Saturdays this year to boost production of coal, food and exports. Tensions eased following the publication of the Gdansk communiqué, which the official party daily Trybuna Ludu called "a partial return to realistic thinking...