Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind Yeltsin's down-home humor was a stark message about the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R., he warned, had barely a year, or less,to put its house in order. "We are on the edge of an abyss," he told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, "and if we go over the edge, it will lead to a cataclysm, not only for the Soviet Union but for the whole world...
...President Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle, Secretary of State James Baker and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, as well as thousands of ordinary Americans. And he had plenty of prescriptions for improvement: clean the deadwood from the Politburo; subordinate the party to the People's Congress; open up foreign investment...
Some criticize the machinery of her welfare state, with its lengthy waits for elective surgery and its vibrant black market manned by people dodging heavy taxes. Voters who are struggling under her austere economic policies complain of her largesse to Third World countries -- one of the highest per capita foreign aid budgets in the world. "We are world champions at solving other countries' problems," charges the right-wing Progress Party leader Carl Hagen. "We behave as though we are a superpower...
...border was thrown open, East Germany charged that Hungary was in "clear violation of legal treaties" and demanded that it stop letting the refugees through. Budapest angrily dismissed the charges and asserted that it was not willing to become a "refugee camp" for East Germany's problem. Hungarian Foreign Minister Gyula Horn rejected the charges of payments from West Germany as "unacceptable and insulting," then hinted that East Germany might be guilty of the same. Horn had a point: since 1961, East Germany has demanded cash from West Germany before granting legal exit permits for many of its citizens. This...
Most of Eastern Europe followed the lead of Moscow, which attempted to avoid intra-alliance finger pointing and instead blamed Bonn. As for Hungary, the Soviets displayed cautious sympathy. In an interview with the BBC, Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said that Hungary was "in a Catch-22 situation. On the one hand, it had an agreement with the ((German Democratic Republic)) not to allow G.D.R. citizens to travel to a third country. On the other hand, it had all these people there. It was a very difficult, very unusual situation...