Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With some Senators Reagan tried religion. Said Democrat Howell Heflin of Alabama: "We talked about the fact that the Middle East, according to the Bible, would be the place where Armageddon would start. The President interprets the Bible to mean that at Armageddon, Russia is going to become involved in it." Heflin remained opposed. With Democrat John Melcher of Montana, the Reagan approach may have been more down to earth: in exchange for a vote, the White House reportedly offered to reconsider funding an experimental coal plant in Butte. Melcher remained undecided...
...same cannot be said of Asia, of course, where the intermittent conflict between two great autocratic empires-Japan and Russia-endangers the entire world. After it broke its self-imposed isolation at the end of the 19th century, Japan proved all but invincible. With no country in the area strong enough to stand in its way, Tokyo gained its present domination over the Pacific, invading the Hawaiian Islands in 1910 and forcing a weak Mexico to cede the Catalina Islands, off the coast of Southern California, in 1913. Santa Catalina is now the Japanese Hong Kong, a center of industrial...
...Tsar Nicholas II of Russia called a meeting of European leaders in The Hague, The Netherlands, to discuss disarmament and world peace. Out of that meeting was formed the Permanent Court of Arbitration that has ever since served as an international referee in settling disputes between sovereign nations. Last week, a new body, the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, began proceedings in the court's headquarters. Its task will probably be far larger and more complicated than anything the old court encountered in its 82-year history: settling the claims of an estimated 3,300 corporations against the revolutionary...
Garbanevskaya, a poet, was a founder of the underground journal "Chronicle of Current Events," which is still published in Russia. In 1968 she was arrested for demonstrating in Red Square against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia and was later placed in a psychiatric institution--a familiar ordeal for a Soviet dissident. After her release, Garbanevskaya emmigrated to Paris, where she is now the editor-in-chief of "Memory," a Russian literary journal...
...first major rock festival to be held in the Soviet Union. Officials have painfully mixed feelings about pop culture and its musical expression, sometimes denouncing it as decadent, sometimes going along. When the Yerevan festival was approved, young Soviets came from as far away as the Baltic republics, central Russia and even Siberia. They luxuriated in the distinctive sounds of such national pop superstars as Stas Namin, 30, Gunnar Graps, 29, and his Magnetic Band, and Valeri Leontiev, 32, a booted, bolero-suited dancing rocker whose performance falls somewhere between those of Mick Jagger and Mikhail Baryshnikov...