Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whisks past Kohan's Kutuzovsky Prospect apartment en route to the Kremlin. But keeping an eye on Gorbachev is as exciting as it is demanding. Says Kohan: "There have been times during the past hectic months of political activity when I have wondered if Gorbachev has not reached a dead end. Then, suddenly, he will pull off a surprise, and everything will move forward again. He has shown an endless talent for the unexpected...
...frantic call for heavy equipment to help in the search for people who might be trapped. But Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, in charge of the rescue effort, admitted, "There is a shortage of equipment." The need was critical. "Every hour of delay means another 20 dead out of every thousand buried," said Soviet Health Minister Yevgeni Chazov. Doctors from several sister republics were rushed into the region to minister to 19,000 injured people, nearly a third of them crowding hospitals in Yerevan and neighboring towns. Their efforts were hindered by a desperate lack of antibiotics, disposable syringes...
...even more afraid of the J.V.P.," whispers the terrified shopkeeper. "I am in the middle. I can't think; I can't even speak, I am so afraid." A moment later, he tells his visitor, "Please don't mention my name, or this shop. I'll be a dead...
After eight years of Ronald Reagan, the labor movement was supposed to be dead. Unions were supposed to be on the run, management was supposed to be in control and strikes were to be a quaint historical oddity...
...Joseph McCarthy is dead and buried; so should be his ignorant and unfair assumptions about Soviet policy and motives. The staff position, though not maliciously anti-Soviet, is still misguided in its apparent unreadiness to regard Gorbachev's proposals as legitimate. While we agree that both sides should be cautious, as any government should be, we cannot support insinuations that would place American presidents morally above Soviet leaders. Recent White House scandals, the Iran-Contra affair and covert CIA actions suggest otherwise...