Word: regional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute speech before the Cuban National Assembly, Gorbachev also proposed that a "zone of peace" be established in Latin America and the Caribbean and renounced any Soviet intention of establishing naval, air or missile bases in the region...
...expire this week. Congressional Democrats, who have grown resistant to such assistance since the Iran-contra scandal, accepted this program because it effectively sets a date for the contras' disbandment and does little to interfere with the Esquipulas peace plan, adopted in August 1987 by all governments in the region...
...right to exist. The U.S. and Britain chastise him for harboring a Palestinian guerrilla group, some of whose members are leading suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Yet Syria's wily President Hafez Assad appeared unruffled and even jovial last week, as he maneuvered through the region's perilous political landscape for three hours in a rare interview with TIME Assistant Managing Editors Karsten Prager and John F. Stacks, Cairo bureau chief Dean Fischer and correspondent David S. Jackson. Excerpts...
Realistically, there is no intent to pry the East away from Moscow and destabilize the region militarily. But there are those who see every reason to seek systemic change. "Rather than trying to separate Poland from the bloc, we ought to encourage changes there to spread back to the Soviet Union," says Michael Mandelbaum, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Why stop at the Elbe? Let's roll Communism all the way back to Moscow." Unlikely. But if the U.S. and its partners want to move it at all, now is the time to get started...
...since Stalin slammed down the Iron Curtain has the region experienced so much change. So far, Washington and its allies have been restrained in trying to turn events in Moscow's front yard to their advantage -- and they may keep it that way. -- British and U.S. officials acknowledge bomb alerts prior to Flight 103's ill-fated voyage. -- Peru lurches toward chaos...