Word: easterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over Queens was particularly significant for Harvard because it almost guarantees the team the number-two seed for the Eastern Championships to be held in two weeks at Bucknell University in Lewiston...
Henry Kissinger has been trying to persuade the Bush Administration to work out a new agreement with the Kremlin. The Soviet Union would commit itself to tolerate political and economic pluralism in Eastern Europe in exchange for Western guarantees of Soviet military security. The notion seems to be that Moscow might be more likely to allow Poland, Hungary and other countries to evolve toward democracy and free markets, perhaps even to associate themselves with the European Community, if NATO promises not to lure them out of the Warsaw Pact and perhaps desists from covert intelligence operations behind the Iron Curtain...
Critics have stigmatized the proposed deal as "Yalta II," a repetition of Franklin Roosevelt's unwitting sellout of Eastern Europe in 1945. The State Department bureaucracy is unanimously (though anonymously) convinced that a superpower negotiation on the fate of Europe would offend the Europeans. Last month James Baker publicly floated the idea, without quite endorsing it. Sure enough, transatlantic cables poured into Foggy Bottom with protests and warnings. The British Ambassador in Washington sought, and received, assurances that the Administration was not embracing the plan. Last week Kissinger insisted that his purpose is not to redo Yalta but to undo...
Onoar says the importance of oil in the world economy now gives Middle Eastern countries massive political influence...
Gejdenson represents the eastern Connecticut district that includes the Electric Boat sub-building plant in Groton. Electric Boat, a division of General Dynamics Corp., and the Newport News Shipbuilding Co. in Virginia are the only manufacturers of attack subs...