Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year, is giving senior-bound college students a chance to get hands-on experience at a major news organization, and a rare glimpse of how TIME is put together. "It's fun knowing what will get into the magazine before anyone else does," says Intern Ruth Masters, 20, a European-history major at the University of Pennsylvania, who is researching and writing in the Economy & Business section...
...beautiful was, of course, Collins, who at 54 can still turn a few heads. In fact, the 45-seat courtroom was not big enough for the many reporters, European as well as American, who wanted to cover the best show in town, and crowds gathered outside the door to watch the drama on TV monitors. In many newspapers and on some TV news shows, it threatened to upstage the Iranscam hearings...
...public relations, this "new thinking" has been immensely successful. Gorbachev has outcommunicated the Great Communicator. Some recent European opinion polls have found that the man in the Kremlin is more popular than the one in the White House. But the substance of Gorbachev's rhetoric remains to be tested, and it could prove inflammatory close to home. Gorbachev's popularity in Eastern Europe seems already to be backfiring against the regimes in the region -- and therefore against Soviet control. One of the most extraordinary images of the year came last month at the Berlin Wall. A group of East German...
This question is most critical when it comes to Western Europe. A European missile deal could be seen as "decoupling" the defense of the U.S. from that of its allies. Gorbachev's new accommodating line could also lull the West into a false sense of security and endanger the cohesiveness of the Atlantic Alliance. By employing the very opposite of cold war tactics, the Soviets could conceivably make more headway than ever in pursuit of their long- standing goal: gaining influence throughout Europe...
...Soviets claim to be. Gorbachev has called for reducing conventional arms to a level of "reasonable sufficiency." Said he: "In the European building, every apartment is entitled to protect itself against burglars, but only in such a way as not to demolish the next-door apartment." His top propagandist, Alexander Yakovlev, is even more forceful about cutting conventional forces. "We are prepared for the most radical steps along these lines," he told New Perspectives Quarterly, a California-based political journal. Encouraging words -- but in more than 13 years of negotiations with the West over mutual troop reductions, the Soviets have...