Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Continent last week threw into sharp relief two major and intersecting historic trends. His foray into Poland and Hungary highlighted how Eastern Europe, at least in part, is tumbling toward greater independence from its Soviet overlords. His attendance at the Paris summit of industrialized nations at week's end illustrated, less intentionally, how Western Europe similarly continues to become more independent of the U.S. And Bush's skimpy aid offerings in Warsaw and Budapest showed that as the waning of the cold war hastens these shifts in Europe's tectonic plates, the U.S. is likely to find it both necessary...
...controlling pollution in Cracow; he also pledged support for a move to reschedule some of the nation's foreign debt. In Hungary he offered $25 million in economic aid, $5 million for an environmental center, a $1.5 million a year Peace Corps project to help teach English, and the end of trade restrictions...
...speak at the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences, Bush invited a couple of students into the presidential limousine; one of them sported a power yellow tie, reflecting Alan Greenspan more than Karl Marx. At the end of a run with dozens of youthful joggers, Bush jovially autographed a dirty sneaker that a child had thrust into his hand...
Before he left Hungary, Bush had a special demonstration of the new wave. When he arrived to deliver his formal address at Karl Marx University, it was difficult to find any sign of Marx. The lone statue at the far end of the huge hall was blocked from sight by the press stand. "Your people and your leaders -- government and opposition alike -- are not afraid to break with the past, to act in the spirit of truth," Bush told the students. "And what better example of this could there be than one simple fact: Karl Marx University has dropped...
When he arrived in Moscow last August, a Western diplomat had to choose which of two cars to buy. In the end he picked the one he liked less and that cost more. His reason: "The owner threw in one of the American maps with...