Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-ranking Soviet official said in an interview yesterday that Yuri V. Andropov's accession to power in Russia would produce no major shift in Soviet policy toward the United States...
...shift in mood began in the first hours after Brezhnev's death two weeks ago. It grew more pronounced as Vice President George Bush and Shultz arrived in Moscow for the funeral, under specific instructions from President Reagan to emphasize U.S. willingness to ease tensions. Andropov, accompanied by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Andrei Alexandrov-Agentov, an adviser on East-West relations, met with them and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman for 30 min. in the brightly lit Green Room of the Kremlin. They discussed nuclear-arms control, Afghanistan and human rights, three of the prickliest issues between...
...these countries," said Chen, "are entering a second phase, a second industrial revolution that will be much harder than the first." The leaders of Asia will have to shift their economies gradually to exotic specialties like electronics and robotics...
...films and on TV as a doped-up maniac itching to mow down strangers. More and more, says Horton, the public is "seeing vets not as baby killers but, at worst, as dupes-and, at best, as people who did heir patriotic duty." Yet the veterans remain wary. "The shift in America's mood is a subtle one," says Steve Bailey, a Houston doctor and volunteer counselor of Viet Nam veterans. "The vets I talk to are waiting to see if the feeling endures past Armistice...
...neighbors. On the contrary, insofar as the military sector has drained off resources from the civilian economy, the U.S.S.R.'s war machine has weakened the country. According to some reports, a number of party officials and theoreticians have even begun asking whether, as a result, their country ought to shift its concept of strength and security from a narrow, strictly military definition to a broader one, embracing economic strength and social stability as well. In other words, should the classic guns-vs.-butter conflict be resolved, for once, in a way that gives at least equal emphasis to butter...