Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Congress. Bronfman first transformed the relatively passive fund-raising charity into a prime mover of Jewish causes. He has personally bankrolled much of the organization's work and used his stature to force recognition of Jewish rights as he sees them. Bronfman championed the campaign to make the former Soviet Union permit Russian Jews to emigrate, and he almost single-handedly ended the career of Kurt Waldheim, once U.N. Secretary-General, then President of Austria, for alleged war crimes. "Part of my life and part of the things that I want out of life," he says...
...YORK: Hundreds of Internet users looking for free pornography got something else when they tried to download pictures from three U.S. websites: hundreds of dollars in phone charges to a former Soviet republic. The Federal Trade Commission shut down the scam, charging three people and two companies in New York state with false and deceptive advertising. The ring allegedly lured Web surfers to its sites with the promise of free erotic pictures. Those who wanted to see the photographs first had to download special software that, once installed, surreptitiously hijacked the computer's modem. The program disconnected the users from...
...warplanes, flying from 10 bases ringing the U.S., costs taxpayers about $1 million a day defending the nation's air sovereignty. In 1993 Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell recommended that the fleet be scrapped, saying, "We have a large number of planes that are still waiting for Soviet bombers to come over the North Pole." Last week there were fresh reasons for grounding the relic--two episodes in which it seemed as if U.S. warplanes were at war with American airliners...
...That's just the point, the Clinton Administration counters, that children under 18 are too young to make responsible decisions about smoking. Whatever the ruling, the tobacco industry is hedging its bets by aggressively expanding operations in foreign markets such as Asia and the former Soviet bloc, areas where tobacco regulations are scarce and youthful consumers eager to snap up high-profile Western products are plentiful. Also in the works -- development of "safer" cigarettes, which so far haven't made it out of research labs. Osteen has promised a decision on the regulations anywhere from between five to 10 weeks...
...historical record would simply destroy the beautiful creation of the Soviet artists, not simply in their socialistic slogans but in their carefully cut woodblock prints of Lenin giving voice to the masses through radio, and of Russian people frolicking in the bounty of "freedom" and plenty. So let us leave it at that, the wonderfully appetitive imagery to be gained from a visit to the museum. Go enjoy the workers' paradise...