Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traffic controllers spoke politely in broken English to foreign air crews, then broke into heated shouting with fellow Armenians, all taxed to the breaking point by overwork and personal tragedy...
...Foreign aircraft bringing in blood, medical supplies, food, clothing and rescue equipment wait hours to be unloaded at the airport in Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia...
Crates of supplies flown in by more than 40 foreign aircraft were stacked around the airport tarmac waiting for trucks, buses and helicopters to take them to stricken areas...
...seemed like what most Americans would expect from a speech by Woodrow Wilson or John F. Kennedy than a Kremlin head. And his downplaying of ideological differences among nations demonstrates a new willingness to dismiss Marxist ideology calling for world revolution and to adopt a more pragmatic approach to foreign policy...
While Gorbachev would like us to believe "the use or threat of force no longer can or must be an instrument of foreign policy" for the Soviets, that way of thinking has simply not been reflected by Soviet actions until recently. Gorbachev's actual motive may be that he desperately needs to patch up the Soviet economy; the new policy may be an attempt to reallocate resources as much as a change in outlook. Many question whether Gorbachev will continue with his internal reforms once he gets the economy back on its feet...