Word: continental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the world's attention focused on Eastern Europe, no one expected the resurgence of an ugly little war in a troubled little country on the American continent. Certainly not the El Salvadoran armed forces, or the U.S. Government, which funds the Salvadoran military to the tune of $85 million...
The two alliances that have divided Europe (and Germany) for 40 years seem less urgent militarily in the Gorbachev era. But they now must play a political role that is no less critical. At the beginning of 1989, way back when Hungary's Communist rulers were just considering whether to...
Now at last, these experts and governments are embracing the changes that have flowed too fast for political comprehension in Eastern Europe, all the while issuing dark cautions of the repercussions of a destabilized continent and a disrupted economic system.
Gorbachev's genius may be to recognize that he can achieve the old ends by different means. The demilitarization and economic liberalization of Eastern Europe, even up to and including a reunified Germany, might well result in the kind of safe, neutralized continent Moscow has long sought. The U.S. role...
With Moscow's satellites going their own way, a new architecture must be created for the Continent. What should the blueprint look like? -- Reform rattles the three stubborn holdouts.