Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush also gave Gorbachev a list of about 20 names of Soviet citizens who were seeking to emigrate. On Sunday Baker was to give Shevardnadze a list of 95 more names. At summits throughout the 1970s and much of the '80s, the U.S. regularly presented such lists to the Soviet side, commonly to no avail. This time Bush recognized that the Soviet Union has made "great strides" in resolving individual cases. "Let's set a goal," Bush suggested, "that by next year's summit we won't have another list to give...
...smiles on Sunday -- and Gorbachev's thanks for the state of Soviet- American "joint enterprise" -- proved that Bush had achieved the basic purpose of his get-acquainted meeting. "He dumped it all on the table and made his point," said one of his aides. After months of taking criticism for dithering, the U.S. President had made it clear that he too intends to do business with Mikhail Gorbachev...
...Soviet Union wants to reduce NATO and Warsaw Pact troops in Europe to 1.35 million for each side, with the Soviets and U.S. limited to 350,000 each. The U.S. says it has just 305,000 troops in Europe now. Bush has proposed that U.S. and Soviet forces be capped at 275,000 apiece. According to NATO, that would mean a reduction of 30,000 U.S. troops and 325,000 Soviet soldiers. At Malta, Bush called for resolving the differences by next year...
People of many confessions, including Christians, Moslems, Jews, Buddhists and others, live in the Soviet Union. All of them have a right to satisfy their spiritual needs...
Later I felt very strongly about decisions that had very little to do with reality. I expressed this view on repeated occasions in the mid-'80s, when great changes were taking place in socialist societies, primarily in the Soviet Union. In the leadership there was a majority, influenced by Honecker, Mittag and others, that opposed these international changes. You can imagine that as a man less than 50 at that time, faced with a General Secretary over 70, my views were not always accepted...