Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leadership in Europe. The European Community, on its part, cannot accept the U.S. as a member. That leaves NATO, where the U.S. has long been first among equals, as the heavy lifter in Baker's refurbished Atlantic house. By encouraging the alliance to become the main forum for setting Western defense policy, Baker wants to upgrade NATO to be the key transatlantic body, even after reductions in defense budgets and troop levels have undercut the group's traditional source of strength...
...fear the loss of position and privileges; and Russian nationalists who hanker after the Czarist past, many of them aligned with the reactionary Pamyat (Memory) movement. Whatever their ideological differences, the conservatives are united by a concern that the reforms are moving too fast and bringing in alien Western ideas that are pushing the country toward a social breakdown...
...Soviet collapse would lead to a disastrous "Balkanization" of Eurasia and the emergence of "dozens of Khomeinis . . . skulking incognito among the Sufis and dervishes of the region." The disappearance of Soviet influence would probably also hasten the emergence of a united German superstate intimidating to both its Eastern and Western neighbors...
Romania virtually sealed its borders, blocking or restricting travel from neighboring Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, and from other countries, in an apparent effort to curtail reports of the unrest at Timisoara, in western Romania...
...Western diplomats reached by telephone yesterday in Bucharest said the capital appeared calm but the international airport was heavily guarded...