Word: kremlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound investment. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, still the toast of the West, was host to members of the prestigious Trilateral Commission in Moscow last week, chatting amiably with Henry Kissinger, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. A day later the Kremlin announced that come November Gorbachev will visit Italy, raising the intriguing prospect of a historic meeting between the Communist Party chief and the Pope. And with a quick one-two punch, Gorbachev announced plans to reduce the Soviet military budget by 14.2%, while his Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, unveiled plans...
...goodbye to her companeros. She was part of the first contingent of Cuban soldiers to be withdrawn from Angola as part of a negotiated settlement to 13 years of fighting. In Kabul 500 Soviet soldiers, laden with equipment, lined up before military transport planes to fly home. Meanwhile, the Kremlin's Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, and his deputy, Yuli Vorontsov, met separately with the Afghan regime and the leaders of the mujahedin to discuss what amounted to the terms of the U.S.S.R.'s defeat...
...During Reagan's first term, he delivered < enough of these to prove that he could make the White House work again. Was he serious about fighting those nasty special interests? He broke the strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers' Association and obliterated the union. Would he tame the Kremlin? He put Moscow's bargaining feelers on hold while pumping up the Pentagon budget to gargantuan proportions. Though the process often seemed serendipitous, depending heavily on events in Moscow, Reagan eventually presided over a microwave warming of relations with the Soviet Union. No one can be sure how genuine...
...Most Kremlin watchers in the U.S. believe that Gorbachev is still backed by the Soviet military and security establishments, whose officials realize that perestroika is vital to maintaining their own long-term primacy. But Gorbachev cannot expect to hold on indefinitely without delivering some tangible results from the policy on which he so boldly staked his political future...
Last week the Kremlin recommended blanket amnesty for everyone convicted by the infamous star-chamber "troika" courts of the Stalin era, in which three party and state officials had absolute power over the accused. The courts were the dictator's primary instrument of mass terror during the 1930s and functioned until his death in 1953. According to Western historians, the amnesty may apply to as many as 20 million people, a large number of them posthumously. Another post-Stalinist landmark: the weekly magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta published a detailed account of the role played by the dictator's secret police...