Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most significant step taken during two days of talks was the Soviets' dropping their insistence that an agreement to curb the U.S. Star Wars missile-defense program be completed before a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty...
...Soviet Union, Poland and Hungary. Their frustration has mounted as they watch those countries experimenting with glasnost and perestroika. But party chief Erich Honecker, 77, made it clear that such social and economic reforms will not be forthcoming. The authorities in East Berlin even took the unfraternal step of banning Soviet publications that carried "distorted portrayals of history...
...Gorbachev era, the Soviets could have been expected to step in and order some relaxation as an antidote to rising internal pressures. Now the Soviets have put themselves on the sidelines by vowing noninterference in the domestic affairs of Eastern Europe. In a report to the Kremlin that leaked in West Germany last week, Valentin Falin, head of the international department of the Soviet party's Central Committee, said the East German leadership had "sharply rebuffed" advice from Moscow but was "powerless" to deal with the crisis. He predicted that "hard-to-control mass demonstrations" would break out in East...
That's quite a step for Clancy, who has managed to offend more than a few with his ultra-conservative, normally super patriotic politics...
...once, Clancy does not paint the Soviets as the bad guys, except perhaps for one of the drug kingpin's assistants who is also a former KGB agent. And Clancy, who made no bones about his homophobia in an interview last year with Newsweek, at least took a step in the right direction this time, making a gay member of congress--a la Barney Frank--a small but important hero in his story...