Word: perestroikas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came along," he says, "it wasn't possible." Fyodorov surveys the restaurant with a happy, proprietary air. The chef is at the bar discussing the day's menu with a waiter. A waitress is arranging the silverware. The line outside is growing longer. Fyodorov smiles and says, "This is perestroika...
Despite Gorbachev's harsh critique, his campaign for glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) seemed intact last week. Reports circulated in Washington that Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze might soon meet in an attempt to resolve remaining differences on an arms accord, and thus pave the way for a summit. Gorbachev's campaign for "democratization" bore fruit last week as the Soviets conducted their first experiment in multicandidate balloting. In 5% of the country's roughly 52,000 districts, voters chose from a list of candidates that exceeded the number of available posts. Ironically, Gorbachev...
...summoned to Moscow last February and given the Defense Ministry's top personnel job. That is not a traditional launching pad to the top, but its occupant has a major role in high-level promotions and transfers, and thus plays a critical part in Gorbachev's campaign of perestroika, or economic restructuring, which has become the Soviet leader's rallying cry for all sectors of society...
...leadership in the Defense Ministry could assume a vital role in Mikhail Gorbachev' s campaign of perestroika (economic restructuring). -- With West Germany' s endorsement of the "double- zero" nuclear option, attention turns to the balance of conventional forces in Europe. -- Britain winds up a slick, "Americanized" election campaign. -- South Korea' s Chun chooses his successor...
...reproach to their policies and a threat to their power. Gorbachev had saved the toughest challenge for last. Ceausescu's Rumania is the most rigorously centralized and thoroughly policed of the Soviet satellites. The aging and bafflingly eccentric Ceausescu, 69, has spurned Gorbachev's campaign of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring), apparently ordering the state-controlled media to avoid all mention of such initiatives. Thus, while glasnost is approaching the status of a household word in the West, Rumanians have heard little about Gorbachev's reforms...