Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense, Guangdong can be viewed like the Soviet Union's Baltic states, the province's relative wealth representing a willingness to stretch the rules to fit whatever works rather than restrain expansion to fit the rules. Left alone, which it may not be, Guangdong will continue to provide the nation with both hard currency and an example of entrepreneurship at full throttle...
...doesn't put it that way, nor does he like others to do so. But the fact remains that for the first time in 72 years, the U.S. has a stake in the survival and success of a particular Soviet leader. Bush does not want to see the Baltic laboratory blow up any more than do the people who live there. Therefore, the American President is plugging not just for the citizens of those tragic republics trapped by history within the Soviet Union, but also for the extraordinary scientist mixing his dangerous chemicals in the Kremlin...
...suffering discrimination in the Soviet Union? It sounds about as likely as the English becoming second-class citizens in parts of Great Britain. But that is how many of the 30 million Russians feel who live in the U.S.S.R.'s restive "ethnic republics" like Moldavia, the Ukraine and the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In the throes of a quest for their own independence, nationalists in those areas are denouncing the Russians living among them as "occupiers" and "migrants." They are enacting voting laws that disenfranchise many Russians and are forcing them to learn the local languages...
Gorbachev had once hoped to make the Baltic states a showcase for perestroika. But he now faces a painful dilemma. If he allows the nationalist movements to run unchecked, he risks worsening ethnic tensions on top of all the Soviet Union's other problems. But if he cracks down, he will hearten the enemies, who are already making rich political capital out of the discrimination against Russians. The Soviet leader met with Baltic party and government officials last week to seek some compromise of their demands. This week's oft-postponed plenum may show if he has found...
Hungary's open-door policy further fractures the Warsaw Pact. Meanwhile, back in Honecker land, there are feelings of frustration with an aging dictatorship. -- Are Russians the victims of discrimination in the Baltic states...