Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administration has promised to give Moscow most-favored-nation trade benefits, and to support its bid to participate in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an international trading organization, in exchange for Soviet relaxation of emigration restrictions on Soviet Jews...
Referring to Moscow's evident relief at the dramatic turn in Prague, playwright Vaclav Havel, leader of Czechoslovakia's human rights movement, said wryly, "We cannot rule out the situation that all occupiers of this country will have renounced the occupation, and only the occupied will still stand behind it." Added Havel, who is known for his absurdist dramas: "It is like something out of my own plays...
...best bet, if they don't require the import of components that have to be paid for in scarce hard currency. In any case, those aspiring to become the Armand Hammers of this generation may recall that after five years, in 1930, Hammer sold his pencil factory in Moscow...
...breakthrough came when the Pope boldly dispatched Casaroli, by now Vatican Secretary of State, and seven other Cardinals to Moscow last year to celebrate the Christian millennium. Casaroli managed a 90-minute meeting with Gorbachev and handed him a three-page letter plus a memo from John Paul listing complaints about treatment of Catholics. Gorbachev responded directly to several of the Pope's requests. Last year Lithuania's two leading bishops were returned to head dioceses after a combined 53 years of internal exile, and the cathedral in Vilnius, previously used as an art museum, was restored for worship. This...
Among the interviews he has given recently was one to Radio Moscow, which was putting together a story on Gorbachev's meeting with the Pope and its effect on ethnic republics within the Soviet Union...