Word: union
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...survival and success of a particular Soviet leader. Bush does not want to see the Baltic laboratory blow up any more than do the people who live there. Therefore, the American President is plugging not just for the citizens of those tragic republics trapped by history within the Soviet Union, but also for the extraordinary scientist mixing his dangerous chemicals in the Kremlin...
Behind Yeltsin's down-home humor was a stark message about the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R., he warned, had barely a year, or less,to put its house in order. "We are on the edge of an abyss," he told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, "and if we go over the edge, it will lead to a cataclysm, not only for the Soviet Union but for the whole world...
CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS: CULTURES OF SIBERIA AND ALASKA, Seattle Center Pavilion. Art and artifacts by native peoples on both sides of the Bering ! Strait, assembled jointly by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Through...
Amid the growing scrutiny, the takeover whirl accelerated last week. In Chicago directors of UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, approved a bid by the carrier's management and pilots' union to buy out the second largest U.S. carrier for $6.75 billion. In the highly leveraged deal, employees would own 75% of the company, top managers would get 10% and investor British Airways would have 15%. Beverly Hills billionaire Marvin Davis, who had bid $6.19 billion for UAL, said he would match the management group's offer if that package were to fail. In Washington a takeover group headed...
East Germans normally compare their lives with those of West Germans, but they are also well informed about events in the 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...