Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the Soviet Union has become more willing to accept such % solutions, including ones that require sending Sergeant Hernandez home from Angola. Secretary of State George Shultz last week commented privately to Western diplomats that the Soviets have played what he called "a remarkably constructive role" in southern Africa and elsewhere...
...issue is dividing the regions. Opposition is fierce in sprawling Western states, where some motorists routinely drive 75 miles -- often at 75 m.p.h. -- to shop or see a doctor. According to a study by the American Automobile Association, which strongly opposes an increase, raising the levy would hit Wyoming the hardest of any state. The A.A.A. estimated that a 50 * cents-per-gal. increase, which is at the high end in the range of proposals, would cost the typical Wyoming motorist $412 a year. New Yorkers would pay $282 more and Washington drivers an additional $198. Says Doug Todd...
...Suharto. Most of Japan's modern-day trading partners seem to share the magnanimity -- and pragmatism -- of incoming U.S. President George Bush. While a Navy bomber pilot, he was shot down over the Pacific by Japanese gunners, but he professes to hold no grudge. Bush was among the first Western leaders to announce he will attend Hirohito's funeral. To those who objected, Bush explained, "What I'm symbolizing is not the past, but the present and future, by going there." The Japanese, who have chronicled the debates abroad, welcomed the American decision...
...shoppers, authorities last week announced new restrictions on the export of Soviet appliances by visitors from abroad. As a practical matter, the rules will affect mainly East Europeans paying for their travel with other soft currencies who sometimes find in the Soviet Union products that are scarce at home. Western visitors and residents will continue to have access to a wider selection of consumer goods than most Soviets enjoy at stores called beriozkas that deal only in much desired hard currencies...
...everyone convicted by the infamous star-chamber "troika" courts of the Stalin era, in which three party and state officials had absolute power over the accused. The courts were the dictator's primary instrument of mass terror during the 1930s and functioned until his death in 1953. According to Western historians, the amnesty may apply to as many as 20 million people, a large number of them posthumously. Another post-Stalinist landmark: the weekly magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta published a detailed account of the role played by the dictator's secret police in the 1940 assassination of his exiled rival Leon...