Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to imagine that even before perestroika, the Soviet Union was supplying an amount of cash and equipment to the rebels even remotely close to $1.4 million dollars a day. And the ravaged economies of Cuba and Nicaragua are hardly able to give the rebels any substantial...
...reunified Germany aligned itself with NATO, the Soviet Union would fear an invasion from the West and would arm accordingly. Such fears would not be irrational. German armies have attacked the Soviet Union twice in the last 75 years by marching through Eastern Europe...
When Gorbachev began waxing eloquent about a "common European home," he almost certainly did not anticipate the scenario that would unfold as the renovators plunged into the task. But unlike his predecessors, he may understand that the Soviet Union will be more secure with neighbors who tolerate free minds, free ideas, free speech, free markets and free movement. If handled properly, the revolution unfolding in one country after another opens up opportunities, unimaginable just a year ago, to create not just a new Europe but a new and far less menacing world order...
...book is basically written for Japanese readers, to tell them that it's time for Japan to stand up and speak its mind. I mention at one point in the book that Japan could drastically change the world balance of power by selling advanced computer chips to the Soviet Union. This is a very provocative thought, even...
...explain. I was in Washington two years ago, right after the U.S. Government slapped punitive tariffs on Japanese electronics goods over the semiconductor issue. The mood was hysterical. At a party an American politician told me that because the U.S. and the Soviet Union were moving closer together, the world power balance had shifted, and Japan was no longer very important. He had the nerve to tell me that the Americans and the Russians share the same identity because they are white. Well, that's fine. But if Moscow is looking to Washington for high technology, Japan is the country...