Word: easterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy of armaments to an economy of disarmament." Included were enticing initiatives on a variety of concerns, such as Afghanistan, emigration, human rights and arms | control. Topping it off was a unilateral decision to cut within two years total Soviet armed forces 10%, withdraw 50,000 troops from Eastern Europe and reduce by half the number of Soviet tanks in East Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. If George Bush can build on it, this surprise announcement could reinvigorate conventional arms-control talks, which in turn could help the U.S. out of its budget morass and alleviate strains within NATO over...
...important speech," he said. As Shultz knows as well as anyone, that will depend on whether Soviet realities come to match Gorbachev's rhetoric. If they do, the ramifications are enormous. Should Gorbachev succeed in reducing the expansionist threat that Moscow poses to the West, loosening its domination over Eastern Europe and changing its repressive relationship with its citizens, then indeed the fundamental reasons for the great global struggle between East and West -- and the rationale for the containment policy that has shaped America's approach to the world for 40 years -- would evaporate...
...June, the select-side will play in the Inter-Territorial Tournament in Denver, Colorado. The four regions--East, Pacific, Modest and West--will compete, with the Eastern region meeting the Pacific region...
...cuts that the Soviet leader announced in last Thursday's speech before the United Nations would still leave the Warsaw Pact with an unquestionable conventional superiority in Europe, they would go a long way toward stabilizing affairs on that continent. Gorbachev promised to realign Soviet conventional forces in Eastern Europe so that their structure would be "clearly defensive...
...accomplish this feat Gorbachev said the Soviet Union would recall 500,000 of it 5.1 million troops deployed world-wide, including 50,000 in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Gorbachev said the Soviets would also eliminate 5000 tanks from both Eastern Europe and the western part of Russia and would reduce Soviet forces from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains...