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...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...
...arrogance" in Japan because of a feeling that it was the "winner of the Cold War." As the Soviet Union is forced to face crisis after crisis and the U.S. loses its influence as a major financial power, "Japan can take a risk of not improving relations with the USSR," he said...
...addition, the U.S. could broaden the channels of communication between Japan and the USSR and act as a broker of economic assistance between Tokyo and Moscow. Such an arrangement, he argued, "can change the whole structure of international relationships." And, Ivanov added, this could have "very direct and substantial effects on China's political reforms...
...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...