Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late as 4 p.m. Sunday, working at his Crimean vacation retreat at Foros on the speech he intended to give at the treaty signing, Gorbachev telephoned Georgi Shakhnazarov, an aide and friend, who was vacationing nearby. They chatted briefly; Shakhnazarov heard nothing to indicate that his boss was in any way troubled. Less than an hour later, however, at 10 minutes to 5, the head of Gorbachev's security guards entered the President's office and, as Gorbachev later recounted the story, announced that "a group of people" was demanding to see him. Who were they, asked Gorbachev...
...emerging on the battlefield: a redrawing of internal borders along ethnic lines, accompanied by population exchanges. In a sense, it is already happening. Some 40,000 ethnic Serbs have fled across Croatia's borders, mostly into the Serbian province of Vojvodina and the republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Croatian retreat from embattled zones where Serbian militias have triumphed over Croatian defense forces has dislodged tens of thousands of villagers. But a formal remapping of Yugoslavia, with its six republics and two autonomous provinces, could deepen the crisis. Historically, population exchanges have produced bloodshed and pillaging. Moreover, if Serbia wrests territorial...
Last week that sky seemed to be falling in on De Klerk, who returned from his latest two-day retreat to face a credibility crisis that is growing with bush-fire speed. Exposes in the Johannesburg Weekly Mail showed that the ( government, despite repeated denials and stonewalling, had provided covert funds via the South African police to underwrite Inkatha, a group battling the African National Congress for the support of the country's nearly 29 million blacks. By Pretoria's admission, Inkatha and an allied labor union received at least...
When George Bush took office in January 1989, Gorbachev was in retreat. But was it permanent or tactical? Was perestroika in fact part of a larger strategy of peredyshka -- a "breathing space" that would allow the Soviet Union to reconstitute itself as a more efficient, disciplined and formidable adversary? What about Gorbachev himself? Was he Prometheus or Proteus? And even if one gave him the benefit of every doubt, who, and what, would come after...
...Susan Ciminelli's retreat for the tired masses in Manhattan, New Age music fills the air. Rock crystals are placed throughout the establishment to give "a sense of calm relaxation," she explains. Ciminelli, who calls city spas "maintenance," offers a menu of seaweed facials and body treatments, all priced at about $65. Patrons at Beverly Hot Springs in Los Angeles bathe in marble-and-stone pools, then stretch out to be rubbed with a velvety mixture of oil and honey, and finish off with a facial pack of freshly grated cucumber. Total cost...