Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swimming has taught me things I can use for the rest of my life, like how to be disciplined and how to deal with people," she responds. "I've also been able to see countries like Australia. Brazil, Russia, China, East and West Germany, and Japan, that I might never have seen otherwise. I don't regret the time I've put into swimming...
...hysteria of the Reagan Administration," the liberal priest warned that present U.S. foreign policy "may force the Russians to take retaliatory measures against the Soviet Jews." Instead, he suggested that detente continue for the "sake of the Jews," who have "historically been the most oppressed victims of persecution" in Russia...
WITH SOVIET TROOPS poised on Poland's borders, the United States must act quickly to forestall an invasion. While we cannot directly block the advance of Russia's tanks, we can make it clear that Soviet imperialism will entail a high cost. The courage shown by Polish workers in the last year has earned our admiration and deserves our support in this crisis...
...possible intervention. A military "solution" is unlikely to be effective and likely to open the way for global conflict. Economic sanctions will hurt the Russian people, not their leaders, and though they may be necessary they are ironic in the extreme. And the proposals to end diplomatic relations with Russia, or to cease arms negotiations, are the most foolhardy of all. They will only drive each side further into its paranoid shell...
...thriller. "The format," he feels, "is inexhaustible. We don't need farfetched plots: 'What if the President were a midget and his wife were a man?' All we have to do is ask, 'What if the President were Ronald Reagan? What if the leadership of Russia were over 80?' The drama is there. All we have to do is get it down on paper...