Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NATO's original goal of defending Western Europe from Soviet aggression needs to be redefined in order to confront the demands that face Europe. The post-cold war world requires that nato accept responsibilities outside the scope of its origins. This new role must include providing for its own regional security and accepting U.S. leadership, without the condition of committing resources only if the U.S. intervenes. U.S. leadership must be more decisive and work to instill foreign policy confidence if NATO is to be an effective alliance and successful in Bosnia. JOHN F. STAMPFLI Mission Viejo, California...
Singer said that he could not recall an event with greater security than Arafat's visit--not even for Vice President Al Gore '69 or other visiting dignitaries like former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev...
...slurred speech, Yeltsin explained that he "wasn't feeling too bad" and considered himself "out of danger." But the public-relations ploy did little to allay suspicions about the true state of the President's health. For many Russians, it recalled the early 1980s, when the successive deaths of Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko were all preceded by assurances from the Kremlin that they were in fine fettle...
...Baku, capital of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, a malfunctioning electrical cable ignited gases trapped in a subway tunnel, sparking an explosion that killed 288 people and injured 200 more; most of the victims died from carbon-monoxide poisoning. Officials blamed the accident on outdated Soviet equipment...
...Langley admits it knowingly passed on tainted Soviet intelligence to the Pentagon and the White House...