Word: america
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...improbable of backgrounds as a human rights activist and peace advocate. In the 1940s and 1950s, he lived under security wraps as the Soviet Union's top nuclear scientist, cut off from all normal social contacts and followed at all times by a bodyguard. A theoretical physicist ranking with America's J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller, he was the youngest person ever elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. After he helped develop the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, he became one of the country's most decorated men. But he remained unknown because...
...State Lawrence Eagleburger, the White House is still waiting for that payoff. The Chinese leaders did promise not to sell missiles to Middle Eastern countries. That, however, was merely a repetition of a pledge first made more than a year ago. China also agreed to let a Voice of America reporter into the country for the first time since July. But if those are the only results of the Scowcroft-Eagleburger mission, it will not lower the criticism a decibel...
...reigning 800-meter NCAA champion and All-America selection, the women should be able to match their second-place finish in last year's Heptagonal Championship. Rainey already has qualified for the NCAAs in the 800 with a time of 2:06.8 at the Harvard Invitational...
Other runners include Senzeni Steingruber and Wanita Lopeter at the 400-meter slot. Running the long distances are All-America Suzanne Jones, cross-country finalist Joanne Dushay, and ECAC qualifier Rachel Lewis...
...little repression on the way to free markets," a process he called "perestroika without glasnost." But Grunwald doubted even that would have the desired result. He pointed out that while some Asian economies -- Taiwan's and South Korea's, for example -- flourished under authoritarian regimes, much of Latin America's had not. Said he: "There must be a degree of democracy and freedom for people to do their best, to take chances...