Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Long lines. A ruined economy. ChernobyI. Everyone knows about the problems of the ex-USSR...
FIRST, A BIT of bell history. The Lowell House bells were a gift from a former U.S. ambassador to the USSR when the house was built in 1930. They originally hung in the Donailov Monastery in Russia and were slated to be melted down into scrap metal before being saved by the philanthropic ambassador...
...unique pleasure (torture?) of spending December 25 on a bus travelling to Detroit for the tournament...St. Lawrence edged Clarkson, 4-3, Friday night, ending the Golden Knights phenomenal two-year, 27-game home winning streak. Both teams are now tied for second in the ECAC...The USSR may have disbanded, but don't tell that to the hockey teams. Yaroslavl will represent the USSR against Vermont and St. Lawrence over the holidays. Clarkson will host the Soviet (what?) National B Team on December...
...Soviet Union is a superpower in military might only. Perestroika has failed to resurrect a moribund economy. The USSR has lost its "security buffer" of Communist puppets in Eastern Europe. And now the Soviet Union itself is threatened by internal collapse. Glasnost has unleashed a torrent of independence movements...
...more immediately, Ivanov said, the USSR could utilize new-found knowledge about successful Japanese economic strategies to help revamp the ailing Soviet economy. And if Soviet defense-oriented industries are converted to civilian-oriented industries, there would be less military tension between Japan and the USSR, he said...