Word: regional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the divergent assessments, military strategists agreed on two major points: 1) Gorbachev's reductions will bring the NATO and Warsaw Pact deployments in the collision-point region closer to, but still far from, a stable balance, and 2) the Soviet retrenchment will not diminish the Kremlin's ability to retain its military grip on its East bloc neighbors...
...which would require a Warsaw Pact drawdown of 31,500 and a NATO retirement of only 2,000. Within these totals, NATO asked for sublimits for each nation; the Soviets could retain no more than 12,000 tanks of the 37,000 they now deploy in the region...
...earthquake was the latest catastrophe for the Armenians, an ancient people who through the ages have been massacred, conquered and divided. Their home is a region of mountain ranges and fertile valleys, roughly the size of Maryland, lying in what the Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov called the "high Caucasian maze." Of the republic's 3.5 million people, 90% are Armenian...
Using current data from the state Board of Registration in Medicine, the consortium study provides the greatest detail to date on the availability of doctors in Massachusetts by region and by medical speciality. The findings suggest wide variations in the number of specialists statewide...
...resolutions call for Israeli withdrawal from occupied land and guarantee the rights of all states in the region to have secure borders...