Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course in those days, as in Reagan's, the goal of government-directed space research was to outdo the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union by trumping their achievements with more impressive ones of our own. Today I can open my morning newspaper and read a story about the American space shuttle executing a daring rendezvous with the Russian space station, Mir. Imagine that: the East and West working together in space for a change, instead of racing against each other. Contrary to popular belief, the planned international Space Station Freedom is not "NASA's space station;" it belongs...
Fujimori, the epitome of the successful Third World leader replete with Soviet-made weapons and a somewhat democratic mandate, could become an example of the peril of hawkishness. He has proven his readiness to assume dictatorial powers in the past--he declared martial law after a slew of political and economically-related protests--and he could yet have some totalitarian or expansionist ambitions up his camouflage sleeve...
...late for Yeltsin to learn any lessons. Before invading Chechnya, he should have remembered the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and the fact that it took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a humanitarian solution in Chechnya. The Soviet defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet Empire. The invasion of Chechnya could unravel the Russian Federation. And the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace. Is the cold war really over...
This creative explosion is best documented in Europe, largely because that is where most of the excavations have taken place. Early body decoration, for example, was found in the 1950s by Soviet archaeologists at Sungir, near the Russian city of Vladimir. From graves dating back to 28,000 B.P., they unearthed the remains of a 10-year-old girl, a 12-year-old boy and a 60-year-old man. The three are festooned with beads, more than 14,000 all told. But each is adorned in a different way, evidence that body decoration was used to emphasize gender...
...ballet had troubles recently? Martins points to the loss of Balanchine, ballet's presiding genius, and of such grand figures as Lucia Chase, who ran American Ballet Theatre for 35 years. Further, he notes that some of the mystery went out of the art with the breakup of the Soviet Union-no more defectors with their fathomless melancholy, struggling for a free artistic life...