Word: communism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Will Communism play an important role in Poland's future...
...buttress its military strategy, Japan forged ties with another international outcast -- Germany. In 1936 they signed a pact to oppose Communism that included secret protocols to come to the other's aid during a war with the Soviet Union. With Berlin balancing out Moscow, Tokyo accelerated its conquest of China with another "incident." On July 7, 1937, a Japanese soldier stationed near Beijing's Marco Polo Bridge left his post to urinate. His superiors announced that he had been abducted by a nearby Chinese garrison and began shelling the unit. Japanese forces soon overran eastern China...
...force Solidarity off the back benches. Given the vast voter disillusionment exposed by the June elections, Kiszczak's government may be nothing more than an interim administration. Though elections are four years off, it is quite possible that barring a coup or some other unconstitutional act, Poland could bury Communism within a year. Then -- ready or not -- Solidarity may find itself at the helm, hunting for a way out of Poland's economic morass...
American experts find such revisionism a dramatic development. With establishment journals publishing criticism of Lenin, says Dimitri Simes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, "nothing about Communism is sacred any longer in the Soviet Union." Robert Legvold, director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute, does not expect Lenin to go from icon to archvillain. "Lenin will be given an honorary place in Soviet history as the founder of the country," says he. "Yet, just as U.S. historians can show the warts of George Washington, Soviet historians will be able to do the same with Lenin...
...sure I would agree with that adjective "leftist" attached to Cardenas or to what he represents in Mexico. I think "leftist" has a connotation in the U.S.: Communism, or anti-Americanism, which is not applicable to Cardenas. I would call Cardenas a left-of-center nationalist alternative to the present system. Does he represent a threat to the U.S.? I don't think so. I think most people in Mexico understand, as they have understood for years now, beginning with Cardenas' father ((President Lazaro Cardenas)) 50 years ago, that Mexico has to get along with the U.S. No government...