Word: kremlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adviser Brent Scowcroft. At 38,000 lbs., it would be small enough to be hauled around by a trucklike vehicle. The Soviets could never pinpoint its location, and to destroy the entire area over which 500 or so Midgetmen might roam would require launching nearly every warhead at the Kremlin's command. Congress and the Administration embraced Midgetman, and the Air Force produced a design. The fiscal 1987 budget proposes spending $1.4 billion, double this year's figure, for development...
...passion and zeal. Caught by a momentary fit of coughing, he inhaled deeply and scanned the thousands of faces that filled the plush red seats before him. Offhandedly, Gorbachev remarked, "I am coming to the end." Hesitantly at first, then in mounting waves, appreciative laughter swept through the cavernous Kremlin Palace of Congresses...
...Communist Party of the Soviet Union last week was making final preparations to hold its 27th congress, which will open this week in the marble-and-glass Palace of Congresses behind the walls of the Kremlin. For the 5,000 delegates chosen to attend, it is a chance to watch Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev make history. Says one Washington-based Soviet diplomat: "This is the most important event in our history since the death of Stalin. People's expectations have been aroused...
...could never be released. As recently as two weeks ago, Gorbachev said flatly in an interview with the French Communist newspaper L'Humanite that Sakharov "is still considered to be in possession of state secrets and cannot leave the U.S.S.R." Whether the Soviet position is valid or not, the Kremlin seems determined to stick...
...swipe at American policy in Central America, almost all of your foreign policy editorials deal with the South Africa issue. Many people legitimize this by pointing to the "fact" that Harvard could put real pressure on the South African government, whereas no such pressure could be placed on the Kremlin, for example. There is no foundation for this belief. The Soviet government is very attuned to daily occurences on important American campuses. It is eager to avoid embarrassments such as large university rallies fully covered by student newspapers protesting human rights violations in the Soviet Union...