Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offered few grander pageants than summit meetings between the leader of the free world and the ruler of the Soviet empire. Whether the venue was Vienna, Washington, Moscow or a brooding house by the sea in Reykjavik, the sessions carried an air of high history, a sense that the fate of the earth depended on how these two men got along. As the leaders greeted each other, TV cameras carried the handshake around the world and commentators tried to read far-ranging implications in this smile or that frown...
...Republicans could block only at the cost of painting themselves as stubborn obstructionists. Given the feel for the popular mood and the adeptness at defusing or co-opting opposition that he has already displayed, the President can probably win the opportunity to put his programs into practice. Thereafter, the fate of his Administration should be decided by the stern pragmatic test: Do those programs work...
Yeltsin did not dissolve the Congress or the Supreme Soviet, but pronounced illegal any legislation they might adopt in contravention of his special-rule decrees. Since his opponents will no doubt fight back, the weeks until April 25 may well decide Russia's fate for years to come. (See related story on page...
...scheduled to address the Russian people last Saturday, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last President of the Soviet Union, attended a reception at the Moscow Writers' Club. "My wish to the Russian President," he said, "is to take the initiative in his own hands." Few knew better than Gorbachev the fate of those who failed to show courage at the decisive moment: when the August coup of 1991 collapsed after three days, Gorbachev chose to closet himself in the Kremlin instead of rushing out to the barricades and embracing the man who had stood up to the plotters and vowed never...
...battle to be waged in the next days and weeks could decide the fate of Russia for decades. Yeltsin is asking an exhausted, impoverished people to entrust their future as a democratic, free-market country to him and to depose the neocommunist forces who cling to the politics and economics of the past. No one knows if the opposition has become too strong for him to overcome. Or if a populace worn out by political crisis would answer the President's call. Or what the Russian military, itself split, would do if the stalemate worsened...