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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know, Malta rhymes with Yalta. Do you think one day we will look back at Malta as another historic turning point...
...more constructive approach than to , give priority to the unity of Germany. It is obvious that the citizens of the Federal Republic have no interest in joining a socialist society, while people in this country do not want to change their socialist society into a capitalist one...
...one speaks of confederation today, one must ask, On what basis? It would be necessary to have a common foreign policy, a common defense policy. I ask you, Do these conditions exist? We are prepared to leave the Warsaw Pact, if the Federal Republic is prepared to leave NATO. So long as both states remain in their political and military alliances, a confederation of the two states is simply not possible...
...history of modern dynasties, the House of Nehru rates one of the heftier chapters. Since India gained independence in 1947, its political destiny has been inextricably linked with this powerful family, whose scions have ruled the country with only two brief interruptions. There was Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister and an early leader of the durable Congress Party, his daughter Indira Gandhi, and her son Rajiv. Such was the family's sway that when Indira was assassinated in 1984, the 40-year-old Rajiv, a reluctant and unproven politician, was rocketed into high office on the strength...
...Defense under Rajiv, but in 1987 he resigned, claiming that he had been blocked in his efforts to unearth graft related to defense contracts. Soon after, Singh launched a dogged national crusade against corruption. For the elections, he persuaded several of India's opposition groups to quit fighting one another and work together to defeat Congress. As a result, they were able to avoid facing each other and thus splitting the opposition vote in 387 of the 525 parliamentary contests last month...