Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Yugoslavia's Yugo invaded the U.S. in 1985, Americans got their first chance to test the workmanship of a Communist automaker. The reaction so far has been lukewarm, but now another East European country is preparing an assault on the U.S. market. Auto-Dacia, Rumania's state-run car company, plans to introduce its Oltcit, Aro and Dacia models this spring. That could start a price war among comrades. The Oltcit, a three-door hatchback, will go for $3,980 -- $10 less than the cost of a Yugo...
...whether the contras are making progress, Congress -- and the public, for that matter -- will have no objective way to judge whether the cause is worthy of continued support. "Whistle-stop tours by Congressmen to a contra camp are obviously no substitutes for solid reporting on the war," says a European diplomat in the region. "Neither are guided tours put on by the Sandinistas...
Government raids on newspaper or television offices are usually associated with Latin American dictators or East European police states. But last week one took place in Britain. Scotland Yard agents, using powers under the 1911 Official Secrets Act, showed up at the Glasgow office of the British Broadcasting Corp. looking for information that had been leaked to the network about a supersecret spy satellite known as Zircon. It took Scotland Yard officers 28 hours and three attempts to come up with a valid warrant, but then the police carted off two vanloads of BBC film and documents...
...European trade drama wore on, U.S. negotiators in Tokyo were engaged in yet another hammer-and-tongs trade session. A team led by Commerce Department Under Secretary Bruce Smart and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Michael Smith was trying to pry open Japanese markets for U.S. companies in a number of sensitive sectors, including supercomputers, semiconductors and civil-engineering services. After four days of talks Smart described the results as "mixed." Smith hinted that April 1 might be the deadline for another sharp confrontation with Japan, which last year enjoyed a $58.6 billion trade surplus with...
...tire and lighting it. Tambo, who defended the use of violence on several occasions during his two-week U.S. visit, countered that the time for passive resistance to white oppression had passed. Said he: "We hope we can establish the same relationship between the U.S. that we have with European and even socialist countries." After 50 minutes the two agreed only on their mutual interest in ending the system of apartheid...