Word: bulgaria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Russia, Bulgaria, Estonia and eastern Germany, deaths are outnumbering births, in some areas 2 to 1. Life expectancy in nearly every part of the East is dropping, especially among men, at a time when even the poorest Third World countries are recording steady increases. In Hungary the average is 65 for men and 74 for women, in contrast to 67.3 and 75 in 1975 and to 73.4 and 81.8 for French men and women today. Death rates in Russia have soared 30% since 1989, with men bearing the brunt, says demographer Murray Feshbach of Georgetown University. By his estimate, life...
Nigeria routed Bulgaria 3-0 in last night's match-up. Today, Romania kicked Switzerland 4-1. Coming up: Team U.S.A. gears up for its second game, to be played tonight in Pasadena against Colombia. An American win would eliminate the Colombians. One key member of the South American team has been pulled from the roster due to a death threat against...
...forbid Iraq to possess or develop weapons of mass destruction, they place no such ban on his conventional-arms industry. Using a clandestine technology-procurement network never fully dismantled, Saddam continues to buy spare parts for T-72 tanks in China and Russia, antitank and air-defense missiles from Bulgaria, and may now be turning to West European firms for critical electronics for his air force. At the same time, he has pressed forward with Iraq's ballistic-missile research at newly built laboratories. With a leaner and meaner fighting machine of about 400,000 troops, Iraq still...
...occasional arms deals from the old Soviet Union to Third World countries for two decades, wasn't surprised. The Soviets had long ago set up routes to disguise Moscow's involvement in clandestine ventures by shipping arms through East bloc countries. Now, because newly independent but still cash-hungry Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia all support networks of privatized export firms to stimulate arms sales from their own faltering factories, it is easier than ever to use such channels. Even so, my companion was impressed at the influence wielded by powerful members of the military-industrial establishment eyeing...
Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky was given 24 hours to leave Bulgaria after he called for President Zhelyu Zhelev's resignation. Zhirinovsky, whose far-right Liberal Democratic Party was the top vote getter in Russian parliamentary elections last month, was also denied a visa by Germany...