Word: baltic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...German marks, which is worth about $330 in buying power and is almost equal to his Stasi pay. (A few former agents have even found employment as policemen in West Germany.) But Dieter has lost a packet of coveted perks, among them paid vacations at choice resorts along the Baltic coast. Because the Stasis were in a special category set apart from the typical East German civil servant, he received no unemployment...
...time the Soviet Minister departed, it was clear that the fate of the tiny Baltic republic, which unilaterally declared its independence from Moscow, though big enough to be a stumbling block in the rush toward better relations, was still too small, for now, to be a decisive obstacle. "We have an awful lot at stake in the U.S.-Soviet relationship," Bush said after meeting with the Soviet Minister for 2 hours and 20 minutes on Friday. "An enormous amount at stake...
...York's shameless Senator disrupted delicate diplomacy by unsuccessfully trying to enter Lithuania without a Soviet visa. Was the Baltic ballet staged to make folks forget that he's mired in influence-peddling scandals...
...gauntlet was thrown down in another Baltic rebellion against the Soviets that could further complicate superpower relations. Even as Eduard Shevardnadze and the Bush Administration were trying to muffle Lithuania's impact in Washington, Estonia was setting off on a similar course of defiance. As Ruutel told a group of visiting TIME editors in Tallinn last week: "We understand the concern abroad that we are, perhaps, too bold in our demands and are undermining Gorbachev's position. But the interests of the superpowers should not be advanced at the expense of small nations...
...gambled that for them, at least, the answer was no. Gorbachev has replied that for him and for now, the red line is the border of the U.S.S.R. as it has existed since the end of World War II. Yet at the same time, he has acknowledged that the Baltic peoples are entitled to independence. Therein lies the nub both of the crisis and a possible solution...