Word: newes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headline over a recent editorial in the New York Times proclaimed, THE COLD WAR IS OVER. President Bush has rightly taken issue with that statement. But as the "spirit of Malta" washes over the West, he may soon find that he is a very lonely member of a virtually silent minority. On all sides we hear that Western ideas have won and that Communism has been defeated. And yet a Communist named Gorbachev is the most popular man in Europe...
...take a close look at this new international superstar. As a Communist he is publicly dedicated not to renouncing Marxism, like millions of demonstrators in Eastern Europe, but to rejuvenating it. He is a proud Russian nationalist. He likes power, knows how to use it and wants to keep it. His political reforms, glasnost, are totally inadequate compared with a free society. But compared with what the Soviet people had before, the changes are breathtaking. His economic reforms, perestroika, have been an abject failure. For example, in the ten years of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms, the per capita income...
...reforms do go far enough to work, it is still not in our interest to help Gorbachev unless his foreign policy becomes less aggressive. Even as he issues calls for "new thinking," Soviet power is being applied against American interests in Afghanistan and El Salvador and for propping up anti- American regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea and Libya. When Gorbachev asks the U.S. to help pay for perestroika, we should insist he pay for it himself by cutting his budgets for defense and foreign adventures...
...Gorbachev "for real"? Let us look again at the editorial page of the New York Times: "One week ago Russia came of age. She allowed her people all the fun and trappings of a real election -- voting not publicly by show of hands but in private in red-curtained booths behind closed doors." Most people would assume that editorial had been written about Gorbachev's Russia in 1989. In fact, it was written about Stalin's Russia in the 1930s. Gorbachev is certainly not a Stalinist, but he is also just as certainly not a Jeffersonian democrat. We should examine...
...launching the new probe, officials said they would prosecute Nofomela for his role in Mxenge's murder. They also planned to issue a warrant for Coetzee's arrest. But tracking him down is proving to be difficult. Coetzee, who apparently made his confession out of fear that his former superiors would try to make him a scapegoat, fled the country last month, and has been variously reported living in Europe, elsewhere in Africa and on the island of Mauritius...