Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less lavish, however, with his finances. In Poland he pledged $100 million in economic aid and an added $15 million for controlling pollution in Cracow; he also pledged support for a move to reschedule some of the nation's foreign debt. In Hungary he offered $25 million in economic aid, $5 million for an environmental center, a $1.5 million a year Peace Corps project to help teach English, and the end of trade restrictions...
Such gifts seemed rather paltry, less than Lyndon Johnson might have dropped on some backwater congressional district during a quickie campaign stop. The $115 million offered to Poland, for example, would barely dent a decimal point in that nation's $39 billion foreign debt. Some of his European hosts were disappointed. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa pressed the case for $10 billion in assistance, and Communist Party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski asked for at least $3 billion in aid and a major rescheduling of Poland's debt. Hungarian banker and businessman Sandor Demjan, in a gesture that was at once magnanimous...
...could do a lot more to encourage economic reform in Eastern Europe. But we don't have the money. We are broke." Says Michael Mandelbaum, a Soviet scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations: "The foreign policy fruits of Reaganomics are that we are the world's largest debtor nation and have a budget deficit that constrains what we can spend...
After all the coverage of last March's Alaska oil spill, was there anything left to report? Nation editor Jack E. White figured there was. In the Los Angeles bureau, Brown pored over National Transportation Safety Board reports and testimony by tanker crew members and others to unravel the complex chain of events. Then he went back to Valdez to talk with Coast Guard investigators. Says Brown: "I found the web of culpability surrounding the accident was almost as sticky and far-reaching as the spill itself." Meanwhile, New York correspondent Behar, who wrote the story, interviewed Hazelwood's family...
Bush's plan to send in Peace Corps volunteers to teach English in Hungary served as a nice counterpoint to the dropping of Russian-language requirements in that nation's schools. But the second language there has traditionally been German. The historic role of Germany, however, is a troublesome obstacle to what Bush referred to as "making Europe whole again." Poles in particular have suffered from German expansionism, stretching from the Teutonic Knights of the 13th century to Hitler's invasion 50 years ago. To the extent that the E.C. becomes more unified, fears of a resurgent Germany are likely...