Word: sovietize
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...school journalist who never missed a deadline, but he had a fanciful streak--he taught himself to play guitar on a long flight back from Latin America with Henry Kissinger (later, he picked up the balalaika). He also spoke fluent Russian and used it to interview Soviet dignitaries during the cold war--and to nettle the English-only reporters...
...expected to be diagnosed with HIV/AIDS by the end of the year - more than all cases from previous years combined. UNAIDS officials expressed deep concern that the Russian government was not capable of dealing with the explosion of infections, but pointed to successful AIDS prevention techniques in other former Soviet Republics as hopeful signs that the disease's spread in the region may yet be contained...
...that moment and for most of the past week, Bush seemed like one of those mysterious Soviet leaders of the pre-Gorbachev era: much was said and done in his name and under his authority, but the man himself was barely seen or heard. Since the morning after the stillborn election, Austin's strategy was to have Bush be the victor who must patiently tolerate a few technicalities. But Gore's plan to chip away at that notion has had an effect. It helped that Gore won the popular vote. And the Gore message--count all the votes--may have...
...Washington to command Union armies, arrived when Abraham Lincoln was in the midst of an evening reception. Grant stood on a sofa in the East Room so that the worshipful guests could see him and he could speak to them. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last communist leader of the Soviet Union, ate in the State Dining Room with George Bush, surrounded by the leading capitalists of the U.S. The Air Force Strolling Strings serenaded the jovial guest with Moscow Nights...
...artists sat in a Dsseldorf department store posing as "living sculpture," was meant to be experienced in person, not via photograph. And Tamas Szentjoby's "Czecho-Slovakian Radio Brick"-a brick which was used as an ironic substitute for hand-held radios after the latter were confiscated by Soviet authorities-was meant as a social protest, not a museum piece...