Word: east
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...promised that as East bloc countries move away from one-party Communist rule, the Soviet Union will observe strict principles of non-intervention and "absolute freedom of choice...
Without specifically mentioning any East bloc country, he said Moscow would henceforth relate to its Warsaw Pact allies on the basis of "sovereign equality, the impermissibility of any kind of intervention and the recognition that each country has the right to absolute freedom of choice...
Poland and Hungary, former one-party Communist states, are hurtling toward Western-style democracy and hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets in East Germany to demand a similar transformation...
...Dhabi and other Middle East locales refused to admit the suspect sheep, and Jordan and Egypt would not even take them free. An Italian company finally offered to take them on consignment for resale in Europe, but Egypt balked at allowing the sheep through the Suez Canal and escorted the ship out of Egyptian waters. Last week the firm posted a $250,000 guarantee that no sheep or carcasses would be dumped in the canal, and the ship set sail for Italy. That seems like a happy ending, except possibly from the point of view of the sheep...
...plan's success is far from certain, of course. General Michel Aoun, commander of the Christian forces fighting Syria and its Lebanese Muslim allies, warned in East Beirut that "the war of liberation will continue" until the Syrians are driven out. Muslim warlords also dismissed the Taif meeting and called for Aoun's ouster...