Word: interior
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rule from below." A peaceful transition, he cautioned, required the immediate demobilization of the contras. Warning that "the change of government by no means signifies the end of the revolution," Ortega was deliberately vague about the future role of the 70,000-strong army and the untold number of Interior Ministry security forces...
...allow him to control the centrifugal forces pulling the Soviet Union apart. As chairman of the Defense Council, he is already commander in chief of the armed forces. But the new law passed last week will formalize the President's control not only of the military but also of Interior Ministry troops and the KGB. He will appoint and preside over the Cabinet of Ministers, declare emergencies and martial law, issue executive orders, veto laws and dissolve the legislature. One of the debaters who annoyed Gorbachev last week, Sergei Stankevich, a liberal Moscow Deputy, said, "We can still feel...
...Sandinistas have not changed their Marxist ways altogether. U.N.O. poll watchers assigned to monitor the ballot counting have complained of harassment by members of the Interior Ministry urging them to quit the party. Those who comply are rewarded with perks like free coupons for gasoline. Diehards who refuse such blandishments are threatened with loss of jobs or property...
...Tanks have roared through the streets all night, and the army has pushed its perimeter half a block from our hotel. The Tadzhiks are really furious and glance with undisguised hostility at Alexandra and me; a Soviet photographer suggests we acquire official military passes from the Interior Ministry, two blocks away. At the ministry there are eight Soviet correspondents. "These economic demands are stupid," says a Komsomolskaya Pravda reporter. "How can the Tadzhiks demand economic independence when they import a billion more rubles each year than they export? The religion is just a pretext. The young people pay no attention...
...Soviet Minister of the Interior, Vadim Bakatin, told a press conference in Baku that Azerbaijan's own police force suffered only a "temporary" loss of control when mobs broke into Armenian homes and killed dozens of people. He suggested that the Front confer with the police on restoring order. "There are," said Bakatin, "undoubtedly healthy forces within the Popular Front with whom the police must actively cooperate." But Bakatin obviously had a different opinion of the police than his ministerial colleague at Defense did: Yazov publicly accused the police of supplying guns to the Front...