Word: czars
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Despite Drug Czar William Bennett's claims that military action can stop trade in illegal narcotics, drug trafficking increased last year. Bennett underestimated the lengths to which suppliers will go to fill the demand...
...Russian nationalists defy easy classification. The Russian Patriotic Movement peddles pictures of Czar Nicholas II and newspapers promoting the monarchy as the "only guarantee for liquidating the vices of the communist years of evil." Other groups include the pro-communist United Front of Workers. What unites the monarchists and the neo-Stalinists is opposition to Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms. As literary critic Vladimir Bondarenko puts it, "Russia does not need perestroika. Russia needs a revival...
...took over northern Armenia from Persia in 1828, then invaded the Balkans to make the Turks recognize him as the protector of all Christians. The British and French joined in resisting that demand in the bloody stalemate of the Crimean War (1853-56). Resisted in the West, the succeeding Czar Alexander II looked east. He was repeatedly urged in this direction by Prussia's Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. "Russia has nothing to do in the West," Bismarck once declared. "There she can only catch nihilism and other diseases. Her mission is in Asia. There she represents civilization...
...extended over nearly 7,000 miles, but the vast structure had little strength. The Empire of Japan, newly reopened after its long isolation, proved that in the war of 1905. Though outnumbered, the Japanese pushed back a Russian invasion of Manchuria and virtually annihilated the Russian Navy. Czar Nicholas II barely survived the humiliation and the subsequent revolution that swept over Russia. Eleven years later he blundered into another war, another defeat, another revolution. In the 1918 Treaty of Brest Litovsk, the Germans' price for making peace with the shaky new Bolshevik regime included stripping away Russia's western holdings...
...mellowed into a mainstream liberal, married actress Jane Fonda -- from whom he was recently estranged -- and has served eight years in the California state assembly. For Hayden, 50, the measure could be a ticket to political stardom, especially if he gets himself elected the state's first environmental czar...