Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mean disorder, which in turn can provoke repression, reversing reform and jeopardizing the political survival of the reformer. Last week it happened in Tbilisi. Next week, or next month, it could happen outside the borders of the U.S.S.R. but still within the empire, in Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, East Berlin. Western statesmen have their own dilemma. A crisis in the East, especially if it seemed to be fanned by the West, could play into the hands of Gorbachev's conservative opponents and trigger a crackdown...
Henry Kissinger has been trying to persuade the Bush Administration to work out a new agreement with the Kremlin. The Soviet Union would commit itself to tolerate political and economic pluralism in Eastern Europe in exchange for Western guarantees of Soviet military security. The notion seems to be that Moscow might be more likely to allow Poland, Hungary and other countries to evolve toward democracy and free markets, perhaps even to associate themselves with the European Community, if NATO promises not to lure them out of the Warsaw Pact and perhaps desists from covert intelligence operations behind the Iron Curtain...
What do Consolidated Cigar and the Richmond Screw Anchor Co. have in common? Both were once owned by the quintessential conglomerate of the 1960s: Gulf & Western. The diverse mix of businesses proved so unmanageable by the early 1980s that G&W Chairman Martin Davis launched a campaign to spin off more than 100 subsidiaries. Last week the company once known as Engulf & Devour said it will sell one of its few remaining divisions, Associates First Capital Corp., a financial services company. Davis hopes to use the estimated $3 billion in proceeds to assemble a world-class media and entertainment giant...
...again in one of Mikhail Gorbachev's non-Russian republics. From the Baltic republics to earthquake-devastated Armenia, greater independence from Moscow has become a rallying cry. The latest troubles began last month, when a minority group known as the Abkhazians, who live in an autonomous enclave in the western part of Georgia, demanded full independence. Georgians, who account for 48% of the population in Abkhazia where Abkhazians are a mere 17%, staged counterprotests, which quickly spread to Tbilisi and mushroomed into calls for more autonomy from Moscow and even secession. As funeral processions snaked through Tbilisi's streets last...
Only experts can guess at how many secrets of the Western allies Philby passed along to his Moscow controls, or how many British agents were sent to certain death on missions whose cover Philby had exposed. When he died last May at 76, he was honored as a hero of the Soviet Union...