Word: postcoup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pigs invasion. The Cuban missile crisis. Communist adventurism in Africa and Central America. Some of the hottest moments of the cold war were the result of the Soviet Union's three-decade-long military presence in Cuba. But with the superpower face-off a fading memory and postcoup Moscow desperate for Western aid, it seemed well past time to say goodbye to all that -- which is what Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev finally did last week. Flanked by ^ Secretary of State James Baker, who was in Moscow on a fact-finding mission, Gorbachev announced that thousands of Soviet servicemen stationed...
...first postcoup interview, Raisa told the Soviet trade-union newspaper Trud she was so terrified that the plotters would kill her and her family that she suffered speech problems and an "acute bout of hypertension" for which she is still being treated. "Those days were horrible," she said...
...Postcoup reforms in the Soviet Union may solve a long-standing mystery: What happened to the thousands of U.S. servicemen listed as missing in action in the Korean War and World War II? Over the years, reports have surfaced that some of the 8,177 men missing in Korea and significant numbers of the 78,000 soldiers unaccounted for in Europe wound up in the Soviet Union. POW/MIA organizations see positive signs in the appointment of Vadim Bakatin as head of the KGB. Bakatin is a reformer who, as Interior Minister, pledged to search secret files that are believed...