Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, Russia needs the pipeline technology itself. Without it, much or the natural gas in Siberia will be inaccessible to the Soviets themselves, not to mention the West. The S.S.S.R. would then be forced to go energy hunting elsewhere. The Persian Gulf is one hunting ground that comes quickly to mind...
Unfortunately, no one nation today, be it the United States, Russia, or China, is single-handedly making the world safe for democracy. The wonder is that democracy has survived in individual nations and alliances as bravely as it has still. It would seem as there were at least as many ideas--backed by bombs--of how to use modern technology to work its benefits for man as there are nations...
...seeming, however, is not the reality, since there is a movement at the United Nations which is crystallizing itself from the disorder and despair which have resulted from among other things persistent disagreement on ground rules of international ethics between the U.S. and Russia the acceleration of the arms race, the severe fluctuations in international commodity prices, accelerating worldwide inflation combined with staggering recession in many of the lesser developed countries (LDC's) and increasing rural-urban and traditional -modern tensions in the LDC's. This movement, known as the New International Economic Order (NIEO), is crystallizing itself into...
...looking forward to their arrival," he says. "Then we'll have the world's largest collection." But after a moment, a disquieting thought occurs to Sweeting. "Then again, we might have to keep on the case. Who can say how many they have in Russia...
...happy problems by ordinary human standards. By the special values that won Heinrich Böll the Nobel Prize, Tolm's fate as a prisoner of his own wealth and station is a model of contemporary political and moral confusion. The evidence surrounds him. Capitalists eat caviar from Russia and smoke cigars from Cuba; socialists spend an evening playing Monopoly, and the village priest sleeps with his housekeeper. Closer to home, Tolm's son Rolf is a former radical who now grows vegetables and lives with Katharina, mother of their son Holger, who is named after a dead...