Word: moscow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secondaries." On Saturday night the combat came home to Americans, who had their television shows interrupted by images of an F-117A Stealth fighter in flames on the ground inside Yugoslavia--and the astonishing story of the rescue of the downed pilot. Earlier in the week U.S. embassies from Moscow to Paris were besieged by furious Serbs, American allies like Italy and Greece nervously waffled on their support for the bombing, and neighboring states from Albania to Macedonia were convulsed by the prospect of ethnic violence. Inside Yugoslavia, in what may come to be regarded as the worst...
...country most violently opposed, outside Yugoslavia, is Russia. Moscow has been arguing against using force for months, and Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov was in the air bound for Washington last week when the decision to bomb was made. As his plane headed across the Atlantic, Primakov got a call from Vice President Al Gore, who said the air strikes were now inevitable and proposed a joint statement postponing the meeting. Primakov curtly refused and headed home...
...Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov arrives on his first official trip to Washington, the wreckage of that early optimism will be piled high. Yeltsin is sick, erratic and unpopular. Parliamentary elections scheduled for December are likely to give more power to communists and nationalists. The ruble's collapse last summer, Moscow's struggles with its foreign debt and vast corruption have terrified investors and left average Russians convinced that capitalism is a con game fixed by criminals in high places. The government can't collect enough taxes to keep afloat, and has delayed economic reforms to preserve stability. Meanwhile, life...
...Primakov arrives in Washington with a full "to do" list. His biggest hope is for a multibillion-dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund. So far the IMF insists that new loans will be contingent on fiscal responsibility in Moscow. Faced with a choice between lending and chaos, however, the IMF may well cut a check...
Channing did well enough-as the impatient fiancee she was able to pout, worry, complain and tease her way through a fun, albeit uninspired, batch of letters. Insofar as one can act while sitting in a chair and reading from a book, Channing captured the air of a young Moscow actress, reading with feeling and apathy, as the text required...