Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost guaranteed one of his or her top four choices (though in no particular order). As we ponder the succession of Five-Year Plans(More or less), we might wonder with some astonishment whether Harvard is on the same track as another famous bureaucracy of this century: the Soviet Union...
...Berlin Wall had never come down. Last week the House National Security Committee force-fed the Pentagon $553 million to start building more B-2 bombers, whose original mission was to wage nuclear war against the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, the Senate endorsed a budget blueprint, including a $1.5 billion payment on the Navy's third Seawolf attack submarine, which was created to track and destroy the Soviet navy, and is now rusting at pier side. And the Army's first rah-66 Comanche helicopter-designed to defeat Moscow's Hokum helicopter-rolled out of a Connecticut factory attended by bunting...
...earthquake," Yeltsin added. If Russia accepted the aid, he said "They [the Japanese] will say: give us back the islands." That was a reference to a long-standing dispute between the two countries over control of the four southernmost islands of the Kurile chain, which were seized by Soviet troops at the end of World...
Boris Yuzhin: A KGB officer working under cover as a San Francisco correspondent of the Soviet news agency TASS, Yuzhin began providing valuable information to American intelligence in 1978. He revealed the existence of the KGB's Group North, an alite unit of senior Soviet intelligence officers who specialized in recruiting American and Canadian targets worldwide...
Dmitri Polyakov: The most important CIA source whom Ames betrayed was Polyakov, the legendary top hat. So valuable was Polyakov, a general in Soviet military intelligence, that the CIA provided him with special high-tech equipment that it reserved for its most important agents. He was, for example, given a high-speed "burst" transmitter and a clock for his Moscow apartment that lit up in response to a radio signal to inform him that a dead drop, or hiding place, had been cleared by the CIA. Over the years, Polyakov provided the CIA with data on Soviet strategic missiles, antitank...