Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Noting that Pakistan, like many other countries, came to democracy from a dictatorship which had left little money, Bhutto also suggested that a such an association could ensure that new democracies receive foreign...
...names Stalin would okay for execution, one by one, before the working day ended. Stalin was fond of lavishing kindness on his friends, even as he meticulously planned their arrests, torture, trials and death. When one high official, I.A. . Akulov, received a near fatal concussion while skating, Stalin rushed foreign doctors to the U.S.S.R. to treat him. As soon as the skater recovered, Stalin had him shot...
Members of the dictator's entourage were always at risk. On Stalin's orders, the wife of Mikhail Kalinin was arrested and tortured while her husband continued to serve as the country's titular President. The wives of Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and of Stalin's personal secretary Alexander Poskrebyshev were also imprisoned. Meanwhile, the secretary endured other kinds of hell. "One New Year's Eve," Medvedev recounts, "Stalin rolled pieces of paper into little tubes and put them on Poskrebyshev's fingers. Then he lit them in place of New Year's candles. Poskrebyshev writhed in pain...
Once lulled by the cuddly Communism of Deng Xiaoping, foreigners now take seriously the tales of wall-to-wall surveillance. In addition to telephone taps, the apartments (notably bedrooms), offices and cars of foreigners are bugged for sound and outfitted with tiny optical-filament cameras. Chinese security assured one foreign intelligence officer that the accumulation of tapes in a variety of languages was no problem: the agency has plenty of fellow travelers to deliver sophisticated, nuanced translations...
...Honoring tradition, Alec Stern decides to go abroad to try out maturity. His destination: Tokyo. Bicycle Days, a first novel by a 24-year-old Harvard graduate, is the wry, rueful story of Alec's efforts to cope with his job at a computer outfit and with a vexing foreign culture. Through his adoptive family, the friendship of an old fisherman and a troubling affair with an older woman, he succeeds in learning some humbling lessons. Of course that means turning west, to face life at home. Like his hero, Schwartz avails himself of no shortcuts. Innocent of slickness...