Word: plans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long after, agreement between Gorbachev and Jakes was reached on the plan for a Politburo purge. But October came and went with nothing done. In mid-November, hard-line ideology chief Jan Fojtik traveled on short notice to Moscow, where he met with Georgi Smirnov, chief of the Moscow Institute of Marxism-Leninism. Smirnov said that a document condemning the 1968 invasion had been approved by the Soviet Politburo, and he warned that with the Malta summit approaching, the document would soon be published...
...project is still in the design stage and faces abundant obstacles, including concerns about the effect of sonic booms on the environment and the licensing of advanced U.S. technology to the Soviets. But the partners plan to have detailed designs ready within a few weeks and hope to fly the plane by 1995. Sukhoi will have prime responsibility for the airframe; Gulfstream will concentrate on electronics and cockpit design; and Rolls-Royce has been enlisted to help design the plane's engines...
...better position to impose its will on its robust NATO allies, especially a West Germany that has become the engine of change on the Continent, pouring the deutsche mark into Eastern Europe the way the dollar once flowed to the Western nations under the Marshall Plan. All through the summit the German question hung in the air, although the two leaders agreed to keep their public remarks on Eastern Europe to a minimum...
Last week, however, the Chancellor blindsided detractors and heads of state from Moscow to Washington with a far-reaching plan for binding together the two Germanys. By declaring his wish for a "confederation" of his country and East Germany just days before the Malta summit, Kohl pushed to the fore the issue that nearly everyone else would like to tippy-toe around, preferably for as long as possible...
...have not been able to get around the impasse of transitional arrangements," said Lambertson. "The plan by Rep. Solarz could provide a way around that impasse...