Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argued, of course, that American resolve was what brought the Soviets around. For all the uncertainties, progress to date is largely due to an almost heedless Soviet willingness to say da. "This is an entirely different Soviet attitude than we have ever seen before," says a senior aide to Baker. But until the Administration decides what to make of that attitude, START -- and other issues -- could stay stalled...
Every morning for months a ragtag line of Soviet citizens has formed outside the American embassy in Moscow, jamming the guarded main entrance and snaking 100 yards down Tchaikovsky Street. The crowds push and break into noisy arguments. On particularly rowdy days some desperate applicants offer Soviet policemen as much as 700 rubles ($1,120) to sneak them to the front of the queue. Soviet emigration, for so long a trickle, has turned into an avalanche. Each year for three years the number of emigres has doubled, and so far in 1989 some 80,000 Soviets have applied to leave...
...officials estimate that about 300,000 Soviet citizens, mostly Jews and Armenians, will send in forms during the next twelve months. The annual quota set by Washington, however, will provide no more than 50,000 with refugee visas -- a 25% increase over last year -- and an additional 30,000 with "parole" status, permission to come to the U.S. but with no financial assistance. Result: the U.S., after demanding for years that the U.S.S.R. loosen its emigration laws, will turn away more than 200,000 Soviet emigres...
...recent years, most Soviet Jews who left their country -- almost 19,000 during 1988 -- did so on exit visas for Israel. But during stopovers in Rome or Vienna almost all of them switched their destination to the U.S. They will no longer be allowed to do that, and some American Jewish organizations are protesting...
...policy a godsend. It is hoping that thousands of such emigres will now actually come to the Jewish state and help balance the rapidly growing Arab population. Finance Minister Shimon Peres announced during a visit to Washington last week that Israel expected some 100,000 immigrants from the Soviet Union by 1992 and planned to spend $3 billion to assist them. "I don't think there is anything more important than to have Russian Jews coming to Israel," he said...