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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration wasted no time in moving to relieve the Navy of a difficult task that since July 1987 has caused serious damage to two U.S. warships, led to the accidental downing of an Iranian jetliner and cost an estimated $20 million a month. Although 26 Navy warships will remain on duty in the gulf flotilla (down from a high of 42), the White House said from now on the U.S. will provide a "zone" defense instead...
...Arbat, a pedestrian mall in Moscow where Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev strolled during the May summit. All references to stocks, which are not sold in the Soviet Union, have been changed to bonds. But the familiar tokens -- the car, the dog, even the plutocrat's top hat -- remain the same, although a Russian bear will be added. Who knows? Another October Revolution may break out when Soviet citizens discover the joys of passing Go and collecting 200 rubles...
Three years after perestroika was introduced, its effects on day-to-day economic life remain meager to the point of near invisibility. Grocery shelves are even barer than they were two years ago, partly because of bad weather conditions. Gorbachev's determination to force industry to become "self- financing" -- to fund current production from the proceeds of past sales -- has run into bureaucratic snags, with central planners continuing to exert control over factory operations by placing "state orders" that effectively determine how much factories produce. Plans exist to revitalize the agricultural sector with a podryad, or contract, arrangement modeled...
...convincing majority of Chileans, voting simply "yes" or "no," rejected a proposal by Pinochet and other military chiefs that he remain in office until...
...political lawyers continue to transform society and social relations, continue to practice work in that world and remain in touch with our central vision?" asks Gabel, who teaches at the New College of Law in San Francisco...