Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increases in foreign trade. A key step in this direction came earlier this year when the Albanian stretch of a 40-mile rail link, for freight trains only, was opened between the town of Shkoder and the Yugoslav city of Titograd. The Albanians have also made deals with West European firms to obtain factory and telecommunications equipment, as well as diesel trucks...
...campaign has started slowly, in part because only the U.S. and a handful of West European nations have so far contributed to the program. In addition, a number of countries in both the East and the West have been reluctant to participate, either because they did not think they had a serious AIDS problem or possibly out of a misplaced sense of national pride. But that reluctance is fast disappearing. At a WHO conference this month in the Congo, a number of African governments, alarmed at the enormity of the crisis, agreed for the first time to join...
Besse's death followed a series of murders of well-known European military and industrial leaders by indigenous terrorist organizations. In January 1985 Action Directe claimed responsibility for the death of General Rene Audran, a prominent French Ministry of Defense official. Days later, members of the West German Red Army Faction murdered Ernst Zimmermann, a Munich defense industrialist. Some experts believe the atrocities are linked, and point to a communique the two groups issued last year declaring they would form a "West European guerrilla movement." Last week French authorities were investigating a possible West German connection to the Besse slaying...
...West European leaders acknowledge that the terrorist threat to their countries cannot be solved without a concerted effort. The day after Besse's murder, French Interior Minister Pasqua and his West German counterpart, Friedrich Zimmermann, agreed in a two-hour meeting to begin exchanging members of their antiterrorist liaison teams in an attempt to develop a regular flow of information between the two countries...
...finger-pointing and disarray in the President's inner circle only worsened the damage already done to the U.S. image abroad. European allies who felt betrayed by what they saw as U.S. violation of the principles Washington urges on them -- no negotiations with terrorists, no arms sales to Iran -- were not mollified by Reagan's many explanations. In Bonn, one official noted, "The Americans are still trying to stop such exports, and now we see what they do." In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, loyally backing the White House, heard shouts of "Reagan's poodle!" from Labor backbenchers...