Word: kremlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shultz and the Soviet Communist Party general secretary smiled broadly as they shook hands and sat down with their aides in opulent Catherine's Hall in the Kremlin...
Nonetheless, the Kremlin's willingness to deal at all reflects deep frustration with its eight-year misadventure in Afghanistan. In a recent poll of Muscovites by the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the French polling organization IPSOS, 53% of respondents favored total withdrawal. Even worse, Najib has failed to gain significant support despite launching a "national reconciliation" effort in which the burly leader disavowed Communism and offered bribes to win supporters. The war, meanwhile, is going disastrously for the Soviets. Says Alex Alexiev, a senior analyst at the Rand Corp. "They are at their wits...
Interrupting his work on a master's degree at the University of North Dakota, Danny Knopfle, 24, took a job one mile from the Kremlin hauling garbage. Sara Fenander, 24, became a Moscow nanny after earning a master's degree at Stanford University. They and dozens of other young Americans whose studies focused on the Soviet Union have accepted maintenance jobs in Moscow at the U.S. embassy and its diplomatic residences...
There aren't even any player changes or new faces to break the monotony. Carril leaves his players in games as long as the Kremlin leaves its troops in "friendly" territories. The starting five for the Tigers--Orlandini, Scrabis, Neff, center Kit Mueller, and point-forward John Thompson--all average more than 35 minutes an outing. In comparison, the only Harvard player on the court more than 35 minutes a game is point guard Mike Gielen...
When is one Communist more equal than another? When he is tooling around in a curtained, chauffeur-driven limousine with official license plates. In the spirit of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika (restructuring), however, that ultimate Kremlin status symbol of privilege and power will soon be a memory for thousands of bureaucrats. The Soviet Council of Ministers last week ordered the government's automobile fleet slashed by 40% in Moscow and 20% elsewhere in the country beginning July 1. Says Soviet Economist Abel Aganbegyan: "This is a way to pursue social justice. Politicians must expect to lose...