Word: neos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Apart from the well-trod tourist trail around the bloc, which leads to such places as the Ghetto Memorial in Warsaw, the Old Town Square in Prague and the neo-Gothic parliament building on the banks of the Danube in Budapest, the cities have some surprising things to offer. Even the region's grim industrial agglomerations are worth seeing, if only to judge for yourself how badly communism failed...
...eight months since, American policymakers have frequently cited Yeltsin as living proof that there is no "serious" alternative to Mikhail Gorbachev. It is crucial to Gorbachev's strategy in dealing with the U.S. that Americans worry about his being replaced by a neo-Brezhnevite, if not a neo- Stalinist. Now along comes Yeltsin to pose the tantalizing possibility of a Soviet leader who would be more accommodating on a wide range of issues. He has indicated, for example, that he might give back to Japan islands occupied since the last days of World War II. Still, his victory last week...
Such caveats, opponents claim, bolster the contention that the Front is a neo-Communist Party anxious to retain much of the old order. "Iliescu is just like Gorbachev," charges Iuleu Boila of the Peasant Party. "He is interested in perestroika rather than real change...
...often, she discovers some very interesting things. Like the fact that the Dutch government still pays a pension of about $11,000 a year to the widow of the country's deputy Nazi leader during the German Occupation, and that she unrepentantly spends part of the money to distribute neo-Nazi propaganda. Or that the monument the Soviets reluctantly built at Babi Yar is actually half a mile away from the ravine where thousands of Jews were slaughtered, and that in the process of building the monument the Soviets bulldozed Kiev's main Jewish cemetery...
With more and more offenses committed each year by the Ku Klux Klan, skinhead toughs, neo-Nazis and various other hate groups, civil rights advocates were heartened last week when President Bush signed a law authorizing the Justice Department to keep track of crimes motivated by racial, religious or sexual prejudice...