Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begun to part," the President declared in an eloquent speech at the Karl Marx University in Budapest. In front of Gdansk's Lenin shipyard, he told cheering Poles, "America stands with you." While offering lavish praise for the courage shown by Poland and Hungary, he avoided baiting the Soviet Union, a sensible strategy for dealing with a bear that for the moment seems unusually amiable...
...author sent word through his U.S. publisher, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, that he would be willing to talk to TIME. Says Aikman: "For any student of Russian thought and literature in the 20th century, Solzhenitsyn towers above the landscape. He has done more to influence Western views of the Soviet Union than possibly anyone else since the Bolshevik Revolution...
Wherever Bush went, he heard quiet endorsement for his restrained attitude toward the Soviet Union. "Gorbachev makes it possible for us to move ahead," confided one of the Communists to Bush. "We appreciate your keeping a good relationship with him." It seemed, as Bush hurried along his route, that his hosts gained nerve and expressed not only their conviction that Communism was a botch but also their uncertainty about how to untangle their political and economic messes. "We are where you were in 1776," Hungary's party president, Rezso Nyers, told Bush. "We need a currency that is convertible...
...glasnost, officials have at last decided to introduce new maps of Moscow, which will include about 90% of the city's streets. The revised maps come just in time. Warming relations between East and West have brought a flood of visitors. U.S. travel to the Soviet Union with Intourist has doubled since 1984, to more than 75,000 visitors last year. The number would be higher but for the shortage of hotel space. Though the new maps are welcome, old habits die hard. Tourists renting cars still receive only partial route guides, which omit the roads to cities that...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn arrived in Cavendish with his wife Natalya and four sons in 1976, some 2 1/2 years after he had been charged with treason and forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union. Settling in at a 50-acre mountain retreat, purchased with royalties from Western publications of his works, the author of such books as Cancer Ward and The First Circle gradually disappeared from headlines and public view. Admiring pilgrims hoping for a glimpse of the 1970 Nobel laureate -- as well as suspected KGB snoops -- were discouraged by the natives and by an impressive security system ringing the enclosure...