Word: regional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senator Mitchell knows the region. When you'rein a powerful position and you know the region'scares and concerns, it makes a difference," Kerryaide Larry Carpman said...
Massachusetts governor, and former Democraticpresidential nominee, Michael S. Dukakis yesterdayhailed the selection of Mitchell, praising him asa friend of the region...
...their proportion of Ivy League student bodies in the early 1980's has remained between 10 and 12 percent. What is even more troubling is that these are the only statistics we have--the University reveals nothing about how it judges other admissions factors, such as grades, activities, or region...
Four days earlier, the Kremlin had dispatched three Politburo members to the Baltic region to head off dissent on the constitutional package. While Vadim Medvedev, party secretary for ideology, visited factories in Latvia, and Politburo member Nikolai Slyunkov engaged in street debates in Lithuania, former KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov confronted the restive Estonians. "You can achieve sovereignty," he warned during a factory visit, "but you can lose everything else...
...rivers, lakes and the Baltic Sea is emitted by industries controlled by eight Moscow ministries. An even touchier question is Moscow's role in skewing the republic's demography. During the industrialization drive of the 1960s and 1970s, the Kremlin sent huge numbers of non-Estonian workers to the region. As a result, Estonians now make up only 60% of the population. The influx has revived bitter memories of Stalin-era deportations, when tens of thousands of Estonians were branded as opponents of Soviet rule and deported to Siberia...