Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of funny how scores can be deceptive. For example, the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team played an exhibition game against the Soviet Union and took a 10-1 pounding. Weeks later it stunned the world by beating those same Ruskies and winning the gold medal...
...documentary films of what it was like 50 years ago, before their lands were seized by Stalin, invaded by Hitler, then colonized by the Kremlin. They remember themselves as having been self-reliant yet outward looking. These are among the virtues that Gorbachev is now preaching for the Soviet Union as a whole. He is a Westernizer, in the tradition of an enlightened but ultimately frustrated school of 19th century Russian reformers. The Baltics are already the most Westernized of the 15 Soviet republics, and they are eager to become more...
...shake-up came after the party Central Committee yesterday approved a program directing restive Soviet republics to stifle calls to leave the union but acceding to demands for more local control of the economy...
...voting members of the Politburo, Yuri Solovyev and Nikolai Talyzin, also retired. Their places were taken by Yevgeny Primakov, head of the Soviet of the Union legislative chamber, and Boris Pugo, head of the party commission overseeing discipline...
...Claim: "The Council came out against a possible attempt by Harvard's administration to litigate and push off recognition of the newly-formed Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers....Harvard decided not to litigate, and recognized the union's legitimacy...