Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before dawn, crowds of people waving red-and-yellow Vietnamese and Kampuchean flags assembled in the streets of Phnom Penh and along the boulevard leading to Pochentong airport. As marching music blared, senior Vietnamese officers, led by Lieut. General Le Ngoc Hien, drove past the Kampuchean throngs in Soviet-made jeeps, followed by buses carrying other officers and enlisted men. At the airport, a team of Cambodian classical dancers showered fragrant white flowers on the departing officers and soldiers, who boarded planes and helicopters bound for Ho Chi Minh City. After almost ten years in Kampuchea, the Vietnamese army...
Whether Hispanic sounds will ever compete on the charts with pop is questionable. "I don't see Latin music ever being mainstream," says Frank Flores, general manager of the Latino station WJIT in New York City. "Our influence will seep into the mainstream, but it's still going to be Spanish music." Some Latin musicians are worried that every step toward Anglo society is a step away from their culture's roots; one player's progressivism is another's sellout. "The Latin market is our bread and butter, and we can't ignore them," says Raul Alfonso of Hansel...
...that were not enough, Gorbachev repeatedly interrupted other delegates as they spoke, usually to endorse their pro-reform assertions. The General Secretary even provided some moments of comic relief. After Politburo Member Alexander Yakovlev read a note asking delegates to refrain from delivering self-serving accounts of local party activities, Gorbachev leaned back in his chair and deadpanned, "That has the support of the conference, right...
Complaints ranged from the mundane to the exotic. One crowd pleaser was Vladimir Kabaidze, 64, general director of a machine-tool plant in the city of Ivanovo. Earthy and outspoken, Kabaidze took pleasure in skewering the ministerial bureaucracy that oversees Soviet industrial enterprises. Kabaidze offered some feline advice: "If a minister can catch mice, feed him. If he can't, don't bother." He also denounced the bloated cadre of "scientific workers" who are designated to carry out state-supported research-and- development projects but actually perform little productive labor. "I recently heard a horrible statistic," he told the conference...
...exception was the eight-year war in Afghanistan, which was criticized as a misguided Brezhnev-era adventure by two speakers, Editor Grigori Baklanov and Economist Yevgeni Primakov. But Gorbachev was applauded when he defended the performance of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The commander of the Soviet forces there, Lieut. General Boris Gromov, told the conference that "we have performed our duty with honor...