Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Milos Jakes is the hard-line leader of the ruling Communist Party and, unlike other East bloc leaders, has resisted reforms orchestrated by Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev...
...fact, it seems the sole purpose of this organization is to protest U.S. military involvement in El Salvador and Nicaragua. At the same time, COCA completely ignores encroachment by the Soviet Union and its Cuban allies on the domestic affairs of these countries, or claims that such interference is some how morally justifiable...
...Soviet empire is disintegrating so quickly and in so many ways that * neither Moscow nor Washington has been able to adjust its policies fast enough to keep up with events. Last week, while the East German regime went into free fall, nationalists in the Estonian parliament prepared to consider a resolution that explicitly challenges the legitimacy of Soviet rule and implicitly raises the possibility of an eventual declaration of independence...
...must guarantee that the process of evolving toward sovereignty in Estonia doesn't jeopardize perestroika in the Soviet Union," says Arnold Green, 69, a veteran government official in Tallinn. "Otherwise, it will be a catastrophe...
...President doesn't comment on football games, said a White House spokesperson. Meanwhile, the President offered comment on the other superpower conflict currently raging by sending a cable to President of the Soviet Union Mikhail S. Gorbachev expressing hopes for "a calm and peaceful period of change" in Eastern Europe...