Word: nation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less significant in its way. But there was a crucial difference: as is so often the case with Gorbachev, he achieved his reconciliation without humiliation. As he had done before, the Soviet leader let the ongoing crisis of the Communist system serve as an opportunity to push his nation toward a broader vision of the future. "We need spiritual values," Gorbachev declared the day before the Vatican meeting. "We need a revolution of the mind...
Gorbachev made those remarks in Rome's city hall, where the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Community was signed in 1957. Although 32 years late to the party, he once again proclaimed his support of a European "commonwealth of sovereign democratic states" and urged that a 35-nation Helsinki conference be convened next year to find solutions to "common European problems...
...What issues? Would you like most-favored-nation treatment, for instance...
...opposition's strategy paid off handsomely. Although Congress remained the largest party in Parliament, it fell 71 seats shy of a majority. Three days after the third and final day of polling, Gandhi, looking fresh-faced and unperturbed, appeared on television to tell the nation, "The people have given their verdict. In all humility, we respect that verdict...
...then establish joint committees for determining what political and economic links would be established between them and how extensive the reunification ought to be. "Nobody knows how a reunified Germany will look," said Kohl. "But I am sure that unity will come if it is wanted by the German nation...