Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Graham, who counseled every president since Harry Truman, began his career more than a half century ago and has visited more than 100 countries--including the nations of the former Soviet bloc--with his evangelical message...
...summer the Family has kept a fearful eye on the forces advancing on the Kremlin. Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's mayor and the chief (if undeclared) aspirant to Yeltsin's throne, has long been the Kremlin's top rival. In early August, when Luzhkov's party allied with a bloc of Russia's muscular regional leaders (once loyal Yeltsin vassals), Yeltsin was infuriated. The alliance laid bare how fast and far power was draining from the Kremlin. Luzhkov's courtship of Yevgeni Primakov, the former Prime Minister sacked in May, to lead his party in the Duma campaign further caused Yeltsin...
...more bad news Thursday as a new political alliance between presidential aspirant and Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov and a grouping of regional governors announced it had invited ousted prime minister Yevgeny Primakov to head its list of candidates. "The Kremlin is very threatened by Luzhkov?s new bloc, particularly if ? as is expected ? Primakov agrees to lead them in the election," says Meier. "Primakov right now leads all other politicians in the polls. Then again, in most polling the top choice remains ?none of the above...
...anti-communist bloc is elected to the leadership of the Harvard Liberal Union, ousting four students allegedly tied to the Youth Communist League...
...separatist violence. Among the Scots it has been largely confined to the soccer field. After all, they receive 32 percent more per capita of London's public funds than the English do, which may be part of the reason why Tony Blair's Labor Party is still the largest bloc in Scotland even though voters denied it an outright majority last week...