Word: could
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...racing "like firemen, with clanging bells" to abolish the constitutional guarantee of Communist Party rule. The Congress decided not to take up the contentious question of Article 6, voting 1,138 to 839, with 56 abstentions. But the margin of victory was not so comfortable that the Kremlin could indefinitely ignore the East European-like rush to multiparty politics. Boris Yeltsin, the ex-Politburo member turned radical populist, urged the leadership to learn the lessons of East Germany, where reforms were delayed so long that they were eventually accomplished within a week -- "without ((Erich)) Honecker...
...Nina Dedeneva, a textile worker from Omsk, complained at last week's session, "People have ceased to believe in perestroika because the difficulties have only increased, while the period for overcoming them has become too long." Now the Kremlin has asked the people for another five years, and that could prove to be more time than Gorbachev can afford...
...m.p.h.), temperatures as low as -43 degrees C (-45 degrees F) and wind chill of -79 degrees C (-110 degrees F) kept the team tent-bound for 13 days. Said Steger when he reached the Patriot Hills campsite in early November: "There were some pretty black moments when I could see the desperation of other explorers like Scott." The British adventurer and his party perished of cold and hunger after reaching the South Pole...
...scenario of Soviet collapse, titled Nevozraschenets (The Non- Returnee), was published last June in Iskusstvo Kino, the official journal of the Soviet movie industry. Its appearance reflects a mood of unprecedented pessimism and self-doubt, in which intellectuals and political figures have been speculating somberly about the catastrophes that could befall the Soviet Union if perestroika falls apart. Last September, for example, political oppositionist Boris Yeltsin, a former Moscow party boss, repeatedly warned of an impending disaster. "We are on the edge of an abyss," Yeltsin told a rapt audience at New York's Council on Foreign Relations. Yeltsin gave...
Denard was flown to South Africa, but Pretoria made it clear that he could not stay. Not only are officials there embarrassed by Denard's latest alleged caper, but also rumors persist that the $3 million South Africa spent annually until recently on the Comoros' presidential guard has served largely to line the mercenaries' pockets. Denard expects an even cooler reception in France. There he faces charges stemming from a failed 1977 coup attempt against Benin President Mathieu Kerekou...