Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notion. "We detected a hardening once Chernenko came to power," says Abdullah Osman, head of the Mujahedin-run Union of Afghan Doctors. Sure enough, Soviet troops recently stepped up patrols along both the southeastern border with Pakistan and the western border with Iran. "If the enemies of the motherland do not surrender," warned TASS, "the state will crush them, no matter where they are and on what reactionary and imperialist forces they rely...
...Shakespeare and Updike, Mickey Mouse and Muhammad Ali, the Beatles and the Boston Symphony. In the following year, however, he endorsed a brutal backlash. By 1981 leftist ideologues were publicly censuring Playwright Bai Hua, who had dared to let one of his characters ask her father, "You love your motherland, but does she love you?" The following month, Bai was given a national award for his poetry by the Ministry of Culture. When Bai wrote another play last year, he took the precaution of setting it in the uncontroversial past. Sure enough, however, King of Wu 's Spear and King...
Aksyonov's romp through nirvana ends on a cautionary note. Though the is land's 5 million citizens are wallowing in wealth, they still yearn for reunion with the motherland. Their petition is met with a classic Kremlin reply: full-scale invasion. The bewildered Crimeans can only watch the living-room war on TV until their broadcast facilities are crushed by Soviet tanks...
...less patriotic. "We have grown up without the privations of war, so this has allowed us to think more about ourselves and give our personal desires more importance," says Yuri, 28, a gas-drilling technician from the Caucasus. "But we are just as ready to defend our motherland...
...control last week. In the nation's first elections since the armed forces took power in 1980, the wrong man won-at least in the eyes of the military. The victor and new Prime Minister was Turgut Ozal, 56, a portly, easygoing former engineer whose conservative Motherland Party romped home with 45% of the 18.3 million votes and 211 seats in the 400-member Grand National Assembly. Said Hasan Esat Isik, a former Minister of Defense: "The Turkish people have shown they do not want guided or even inspired democracy...