Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WESTWOOD, Mass.--Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning physicist who became a symbol of Soviet dissidence, died yesterday, his relatives reported...
Sakharov, a human rights leader who later was elected to the Soviet Parliament formed under President Mikhail Gorbachev and became one of its leading voices, died in Moscow, relatives said...
Almost obscured amid the uproar--and the later discovery of Soviet-made arm shipments to the region--were the very real connections between Harvard University and two of the slain...
...slayings indicated the success of the rebel strategy. Only the near simultaneous discovery of Soviet-built arms aboard a crashed Cuban helicopter in the area deflected worldwide outrage. U.S. backed officials decried Cuban-intervention in the region, and peace plans were postponed...
...first major test only 24 hours after the session began, the Congress rejected a bid by Baltic deputies and members of the reformist Inter-Regional Deputies Group to debate Article Six of the Soviet Constitution that proclaims the Communist Party "the leading and guiding force of Soviet society and the nucleus of its political system...