Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comparison seems ironic in light of the ongoing thaw in superpower relations. As part of that rapprochement, Washington and Moscow have backed away from unstinting support of their respective allies in the Middle East. That has forced realignments in the Arab diplomatic constellation and weakened Israel's once unchallenged claim to being of strategic importance to the U.S. But the unwinding of East-West tensions has done little to alleviate regional stresses. Instead, the Middle East arms race is escalating...
...ring and human outside it. In Houston, Foreman said he was ready to dispatch all comers -- including Don King. And in Philadelphia, Stallone was shooting Rocky V. He must feel about his boxing movies the way John le Carre does about cold-war novels after the communist thaw: What do I do to top real life...
...gone in paranoia, convinced that a cabal of Jewish doctors was trying to poison him. Only after shooting Stalin's reptilian police chief, Lavrenty Beria, did the Kremlin survivors, notably the new Communist Party Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev, try to shift to a new policy known as "the thaw." In a four-hour speech before the 20th Party Congress, supposedly secret but widely leaked, Khrushchev described to the faithful for the first time the full range of Stalin's crimes. ("But where were you during all those years?" one listener asked Khrushchev, according to a joke at the , time. "Who said...
That same year, 1956, the thaw melted too quickly as far as the Kremlin was concerned. Polish crowds demonstrated to demand a change of leadership. The Hungarians even overthrew their government and enjoyed one heady week of independence. Then Khrushchev sent in Soviet tanks to restore the old order. When he was forced out in 1964, Leonid Brezhnev seemed even more determined to maintain that old order forever, sending more tanks to suppress Czech independence in 1968 and warning that he would do so again whenever necessary. He too proclaimed a new constitution in 1977, declaring more strongly than ever...
...regimes in the East. It had long been a tenet of conventional wisdom that Czechoslovakia, the homeland of the Good Soldier Schweik, would be one of the last nations to join the march of freedom. Maybe, just maybe there would be another Prague Spring in 1990. But the thaw came in the fall instead. Demonstrations began in mid- November. The first was a legal assembly of students sponsored by the communist-dominated Socialist Union of Youth. But that organization was seething with discontent, and 3,000 of the marchers moved toward Prague's Wenceslas Square. Riot police attacked and beat...