Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cities such as Warsaw and Coventry that were destroyed by Hitler's Fascist troops." In a fury, Blum lashed out at Ovinnikov, terming his statement "obscene" and taunting him for the Soviet Union's use of "humanitarian tanks" in subjugating the peoples of Afghanistan, Hungary and Czechoslovakia...
...centerpiece of the U.S.-European dispute is an ambitious 3,000-mile, $10 billion pipeline through which the Soviet Union hopes to deliver up to 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from its Siberian tundra, over the Urals, across the wheatfields of the Ukraine and through Czechoslovakia, all the way to the homes and factories of Western Europe. The line was scheduled to begin operating as early...
...Angeles, still quicken the viewer's heartbeat. There had been nothing like it before, nor was there to be anything like it during that decade, not even in avant-garde Europe, where Mies van der Robe's pristinely trend-setting steel-and-glass Tugendhat House in Brno, Czechoslovakia, was completed a year later...
...teams ordinarily tend toward cautious play; after all, too much money is involved to take chances. Income is more important than imagination. But upsetting results soon came in: Cameroon held the vastly superior Peru and Poland to scoreless draws the week before last. Tiny Kuwait tied a heavily favored Czechoslovakia, 1-1. And Algeria humiliated mighty West Germany, 2-1. "When I heard about Algeria," said the great Pelé, now retired and covering the games for a Mexican television network, "I thought the World Cup had gone...
...Europeans indicated a willingness to raise interest rates on government-subsidized loans and export sales to the Soviet Union and some of its allies. If "guidelines" suggested by the 25-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are adopted, the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia and East Germany would pay 12¼% to 12½%, depending on the length of the credits, vs. 10½% to 11% currently. That was a very long way from satisfying the U.S., which had campaigned for restrictions on the amount as well as the cost of credit extended to the Soviet bloc. As late as Saturday evening...