Word: easterners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mindful that his get-together with the Soviet leader will take place at a time of extraordinary upheaval in Eastern Europe, Bush has mused privately and publicly about the "historic" nature of the encounter. Flying back from Memphis aboard Air Force One on the day before Thanksgiving, he wondered aloud if the meeting might help guarantee "a peaceful future for kids all over," including his eleven grandchildren. Then, in a televised address that evening, the President struck what was for him a visionary tone. He invited Gorbachev to "work with me to bring down the last barriers...
Even Franklin Roosevelt was posthumously excoriated for "giving away" Eastern Europe to Joseph Stalin at Yalta (rhymes with Malta). Harry Truman stood up to Stalin at Potsdam and hung tough over Iran, Berlin and Korea, but he still ended up being pilloried by a couple of junior Senators named Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon. It was Nixon who called Truman's Secretary of State the dean of the "cowardly college of Communist containment." Two decades later, the New Nixon's policy of detente ran into a buzz saw of bipartisan anti-Soviet opposition. When a Watergate-wounded Nixon went...
EAST-WEST: Yet another regime topples in Eastern Europe, helping set the agenda of the Malta summit...
Gorbachev's implausible visit this week to Pope John Paul II, who helped ^ inflame the fervor for freedom, follows an era of brutal Kremlin terror against Eastern Europe's Christians...
...perestroika has only aggravated food shortages and increased public discontent. Robert Ball on business prospects in Eastern Europe. The White House waffles on high-tech funding...