Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOSCOW: International Monetary Fund official Stanley Fischer left Moscow on Wednesday with some weighty reading for the plane ride home: Russian premier Sergei Kiriyenko's newest plan to make the Russian economy a good risk for a $10 billion IMF bailout. But before leaving, Fischer made it clear that the...
On all the maps, the beautiful, bustling island 100 miles off the coast of China is clearly labeled: Taiwan. The swarms of tourists and businessmen who arrive at the cavernous Chiang Kai-shek International Airport know they have landed in Taiwan. Even hostile communist officials in Beijing sometimes refer to...
It is also increasingly a Taiwanese government. The tight control by the mainlanders who came over with Chiang in 1949 has vanished, replaced by a feisty, wide-open democracy. Polls indicate that 83% of the population identify themselves either as Taiwanese and Chinese or as Taiwanese. Only 16.3% say they...
The U.S. team doesn't face that kind of pressure yet, but expectations have been rising as soccer's popularity in America increases. Dooley, an earnest sort, is captain of the best American team ever, as evidenced by its knocking off world champion Brazil 1-0 in a friendly match...
Iran's World Cup soccer defeat of the U.S. may have helped the campaign by that country's moderate president, Mohammed Khatami, for liberalization and reconciliation with Washington. TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod, in Tehran for the game, predicted that an Iran victory would create discomfort for Khatami...