Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Office, the Congressional Budget Office and the private Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments have suggested dramatically paring back--and in some cases, killing--the programs. They point out that the Pentagon conceived the F-22, its superstealthy fighter, more than a decade ago to counter two 21st century Soviet warplanes then on the drawing boards. But U.S. officials concede that the Russians have scrapped one of the planes, and that only a few of the second are likely to be built...
...World Health Organization announced the number of tuberculosis cases worldwide has leveled off for the first time in decades thanks to a new treatment plan which trains health care workers to make sure patients take their medicine. But the organization warned the skyrocketing number of TB cases in former Soviet bloc countries could afflict Western Europe and possibly the rest of the world if the plan is not vigorously applied there. The treatment strategy, known as DOTS -- Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course -- simply instructs medical workers, teachers and others to observe TB patients more closely in order to prevent them...
DIED. STANISLAV SHATALIN, 62, witty economist who was a principal architect of "500 Days," the bold 1990 plan to convert the Soviet Union to a market economy, drafted at Mikhail Gorbachev's urging but dropped under pressure from Gorbachev's more conservative advisers; in Moscow...
...Spartacus Youth Club has been active since 1963, but its membership has fluctuated. Grant attributes the group's current low membership to the collapse of the Soviet Union...
...Although we did try to protect the Soviet Union from imperialist encroachment," he said, "we did try to incite a revolution from within the deformed worker's state...