Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harte, former captain of the men's track team, said he wanted to put more emphasis on his interests in Russian poetry and Soviet cinema...
WASHINGTON: The price of knowing your enemy has seldom been cheaper. In the military bargain of the century, the Pentagon purchased 21 top-of-the-line MIG-29C fighters from the former Soviet republic of Moldova for a totally crazy $40 million. But what exactly does the U.S. military plan to do with the planes it bought, ostensibly to prevent them being sold to Iran...
...think they?re going to do that much with the MIGs,? says TIME Pentagon Correspondent Mark Thompson. ?The U.S. military always tried to acquire Soviet weapons from Third World countries, to take them apart, see what weaknesses could be exploited and what strengths could be adapted...
...world remembers a President wrestling with this crucial decision, but what were the real reasons behind Kennedy's choice? Our book reveals he had an ace in his hand: U.S. technology had provided a way of locating the Soviet ballistic-missile and attack submarines. We believe Kennedy boldly used this knowledge to convince Khrushchev that he should back down. WILLIAM J. REED Puerto Vallarta, Mexico...
...treatment of women by the ultra-extremist authorities of Afghanistan's Taliban [WORLD, Oct. 13] is among the worst human rights abuses of the century. The U.S. must take some of the blame. We supported the Afghan "freedom fighters" in their war against the Soviet Union. A good start at restitution would be the imposition of sanctions against Afghanistan, the kind that finally toppled South African apartheid. And since the Taliban forbids foreign-aid workers to offer assistance to women, U.N. aid ought to be halted in areas held by this vicious regime. I fear, however, that women are still...