Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what it claims are $12 billion in weapons purchased from the U.S. but never delivered. So the Iranians' public response to the deal in the Hague was lukewarm. Perhaps leery of giving domestic hard-liners grounds to charge that the Islamic republic is negotiating with the Great Satan, Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmoud Vaezi described the deal as a decision made by the Hague tribunal and not by Washington. "It has nothing to do with the U.S. Administration's goodwill," he insisted...
...made it clear that Moscow will tolerate almost any political or economic system among its allies, so long as they remain in the Warsaw Pact and do nothing detrimental to Soviet security interests. The Kremlin greeted the opening of the Wall as "wise" and "positive," in the words of Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, who said it should help dispel "stereotypes about the Iron Curtain." But he warned against interpreting the move as a step toward German reunification, which in Moscow's view could come about only after a dissolution of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...year, are demanding a 29.5% increase. To help out during the strike, the air force converted 14 military passenger aircraft to temporary commercial service. Australia's three domestic carriers, Ansett, East-West and Australian Airlines, have managed to maintain 40% of their daily flight schedules, in part by hiring foreign charters. (Qantas, an international carrier, is not affected by the strike...
Nikolai Dankerov was appointed to head the new Ecology Ministry, and Voyko Dimitrov was named Mladenov's successor as foreign minister...
...steps to send economic aid to Poland have been accompanied by personal adulation for Walesa. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bush on Monday, an AFL-CIO human rights award on Tuesday, and yesterday became the second foreign private citizen to address a joint meeting of Congress, the first since the Marquis de Lafayette...