Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NIGERIA "[W]e may have to [reinvent] the Soviet Union. If only to help the Americans get their act together." --Mma Agbagha, Post Express...
Weiss went on to cite the experience of Assistant Coach Granit Taropin, formerly a wrestler in the Soviet Union. Taropin often reminds Weiss that the weight being lost is "too much," and that he is amazed at this almost exclusively American practice...
...Russia - Iraq still owes Russia billions of dollars for weapons and is eager to cut huge oil deals with the former Soviet patron. Not surprisingly, it's leading the diplomatic effort to avoid any military showdown and is eager to see the sanctions lifted...
...dangerous solutions to the crushing failure of his Marxist economy, but at last his nation is beginning to emerge, inch by painful inch, from the darkest years of the "special period," when the world predicted that his country and his government would collapse, just as did that of the Soviet Union. He decides one salve to the trauma is to go ahead with an idea that has intrigued him for some time: a visit by Pope John Paul...
...Paul II, but not until the conditions were "guaranteed" for it to be a "fruitful meeting." He did, however, modulate the government's relations with the church from confrontation and hostility to the exploration of mutual interest. Neither Fidel nor the Pope suspected then how close to ruin the Soviet edifice was, and Cuba's leader was more concerned with how to manage the influence of liberation theology: while he supported its radical preachings in the rest of Latin America, he saw those same ideas as a threat to his power at home, a church-led attempt to steal...