Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arafat seemed to hear the passionate appeal of Natan Sharansky, former Soviet prisoner of conscience, now Trade and Industry Minister, for "a public effort to recognize our needs." At the White House ceremony, the P.L.O. leader offered a new empathy for Israelis: "We are fully committed to whatever is required from us to achieve real security and constant peace for every Israeli person and for the Israeli people...I will do everything I can so that no Israeli mother will be worried if her son or daughter is late coming home...
...grew up Jewish in South Bend, Ind. He attended Stanford University and failed in a 1977 bid to land a CIA job. But two years later, the Navy put him on the payroll just outside the capital as a civilian intelligence analyst. He went to work assessing the Soviet navy but soon was granted top-level security clearances that essentially gave him a library card to the shelves holding the nation's most tightly guarded secrets...
...secrets to the Soviet Union's repeated success in various Olympic sports was that the country's state-run system allowed the government to go into preschools and scout out children with particularly good motor and balancing skills-and then, after interviewing the children's parents to see if their body types were conducive to a particular sport, to begin training the children immediately. It's easy to use this fact as a way of showing the failure of communism to recognize personal liberties. But all we have to do is create a market for such performers in America...
...Susan Eisenhower, among others, might argue that America didn't win the Cold War (there was no invasion, no diplomatic crisis, no external threat that brought down the Soviet Union). The Russian people won it, with Marxist theory. It was ordinary Russian citizens along with renegade Russian soldiers who surrounded Boris Yeltsin on a hijacked tank in front of the Bely Dom during the August coup seven years ago. The many on the bottom of Soviet society refused to be fooled any longer into supporting...
...Although Pin frequently describeswomen as "disgusting," this is, more than anythingelse, an eight-year old who thinks all girls havecooties.) Calvino declines to mention this re-editin his lengthy introduction, although McLaughlintoo generously offers that portions "hint" at anexplanation. This translation also adds someobscenities and a mention of the Soviet Union cutfrom the only previous English translation...