Word: baltic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next stage of expansion, the candidates will include Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, three former Soviet republics that border Russia itself. Russian officials from Boris Yeltsin on down swear they absolutely, positively will not tolerate Baltic membership in the Atlantic alliance. This stage, two or three years from now, could mean a return to some form of East-West cold war. And since nuclear weapons are the only way NATO could defend the Baltic states against a threat from Russia, it could also mean a return to the terrible days when thermonuclear missile forces confronted each other across European borders...
...fact, he wanted to swallow up Russia, Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic countries to augment lebensraum: Germany's vital space. But then why did he launch his destructive war against London? Why did he declare war against the U.S.? Solely to please his Japanese ally? Why did he mandate a policy of cruelty in the Soviet territories occupied by his armies, when certain segments of the population there were ready to greet them with flowers? And finally, why did he invest so much energy in his hatred of Jews? Why did the night trains that took them to their death...
Walesa's life, like those of Gorbachev and the Pope, was shaped by communism. Born to a family of peasant farmers in 1943, he came as a young man to work in the vast shipyards that the communist state was developing on the Baltic coast, as did so many other peasant sons. A devout Roman Catholic, he was shocked by the repression of workers' protests in the 1970s and made contact with small opposition groups. Sacked from his job, he nonetheless climbed over the perimeter wall of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980, at age 37, to join...
...Drug Resistant TB. It occurs in TB patients who did not complete courses of antibiotics ? meaning the bacteria learns to tolerate the drugs already in the system. The study found MDR TB 'hot zones' in one-third of the 35 countries surveyed. Alarmingly high incidences were reported in the Baltic states and the Dominican Republic...
...first stage of expansion is disruptive, it can only get worse in the future. "This venture," says one of its American designers, "will succeed or fail over whether the process can be kept open for all deserving countries, including the Baltics." Yes, he says, the admission of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania--which might need security reassurance more than Poland does right now--is "doable, but not immediately." It will happen over the next five to 10 years, he predicts. That is not the way it looks from Moscow. "The Baltic republics are strictly off the table," says Dmitri Trenin...