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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus it was understandable, perhaps even inevitable, that Soviet control over Eastern Europe would erode and its territorial approach to security be exposed as obsolete in a world of nuclear missiles. Yet even years from now, when the breathtaking events of 1989 are assessed, hindsight is unlikely to dilute the amazement of the moment. For suddenly, amid a barrage of headlines that a year ago would have seemed unimaginable, the architecture of Europe is being redrawn and the structure of international relations transformed by Mikhail Gorbachev's redefinition of Soviet security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, He's For Real Mikhail Gorbachev | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...given the sweeping transformations under way, these measures seem limp. Such a step-by-step approach would be, at best, yet another example of the -- dare one say timid? -- incrementalism on arms control and trade that has marked Soviet-American relations for four decades. As Bush himself says, the opportunity is historic. The idea that the Warsaw Pact would launch a land invasion of Western Europe, which is what most of NATO expenditures are designed to prevent, has become nearly inconceivable. "It may be time to abandon incrementalism for a leapfrog approach, to see if we can really make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, He's For Real Mikhail Gorbachev | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...with their recent attempts to gain the attention of Robert G. Stone '45, a member of the Pittston Board of Directors and the Harvard Corporation. So when the protested outside a Corporation meeting at 17 Quincy St. this Monday, for the third time this fall, they tried a new approach. They gave him a present--a symbolic bag of coal--to remind him that he has been "a very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 11/4/1989 | See Source »

...need for funds has escalated to thepoint where such an approach is almost essential,according to Harvard fundraisers...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Harvard Prepares Funding Pitch | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

Monrad says he takes a similar approach. "Ifeel that Harvard's the leader--Harvard sets thestandard for education in the world," he says...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Harvard Prepares Funding Pitch | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

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