Word: eagers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenet of Gorbachev's reform policies athome that the Soviet Union must demonstrate to theWest it is eager to serve as a cooperative partnerin world economic development and dispel theKremlin's "enemy image" of the Cold...
...Georgetown University who heads family-owned coffee and pharmaceutical businesses. Cristiani became active in ARENA a year before the 1984 presidential election. Its candidate then, party founder Roberto d'Aubuisson, was strongly opposed by the U.S. because of his alleged ties to the notorious death squads. Party leaders, eager to transform ARENA's tough image, chose Cristiani to personify the new nonviolent party...
...unilateral announcement two weeks ago that there would be no national elections this year. Parliament's term expires in September, and a new body must be elected within six months. Not only are elections a party matter, which should have been decided by De Klerk, but the caucus was eager to call an election as early as May to take advantage of pratfalls by the opposition parties. Botha protests that he is "not looking for power for the sake of power," and does "not cling to posts." But it seems to many of his colleagues that his arbitrary postponement...
...same time, Western influence is painfully limited. Too bold an intervention might tempt the eager reformers like Hungary and Poland to go too far and court Soviet repression. At bottom, though, the West simply lacks the power to order the universe that it wielded...
...does not intend to be, but the West is divided by the question of how, and how much, to help the East bloc. One school, which includes Italian Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita, is eager to launch a Communist Marshall Plan to deal with the bloc's $131 billion indebtedness -- a 60% increase in three years -- rung up by outmoded and mismanaged state industries. "An expensive irrelevance," snorted the Economist. Critics are wary of throwing money at Eastern Europe without a clear idea of what they should extract in return. Former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski wants any assistance...