Word: heartedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiny Moscow flat, he exulted to his wife and friends, "Tomorrow there will be battle!" They were his last words. He then repaired to his private study to rest and prepare for the next day's passage at arms. Two hours later, his wife found him dead of a heart attack. His heart had been weakened by the stress of decades of persecution and by his hunger strikes and their inevitable consequence: forced feedings and deliberately inadequate medical care. "We won't let you die, but we will make you an invalid," a doctor told...
...after Sakharov repeatedly denounced the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he was placed under house arrest. He and his wife Elena Bonner were held in confinement by KGB guards 24 hours a day in a small apartment in Gorky, 261 miles east of Moscow. There both became increasingly incapacitated by heart disease. Word reached Moscow's dissident community that Bonner's lips and fingernails had turned blue and that Sakharov could hardly take a few steps without being winded. When the Soviets denied Bonner permission to go abroad for an open-heart operation, her husband went on a hunger strike...
...than what the Soviet system had to offer. But last week's brisk exchange was destined to be the final encounter between two men who have come to symbolize in different ways the mind and soul of perestroika. Two days after the testy exchange, Sakharov, 68, died of a heart attack while sitting alone in the study of his Moscow apartment...
...coup to Marshall Goldman, a leading American Sovietologist, last summer. The coup menace is exacerbated by the growing strength of Russian ultra-nationalist organizations. Extremist groups like Pamyat have targeted Jews (a paranoid Jewish-Masonic conspiracy theory), "intellectuals" and "Russophobes" as scapegoats for national decline. The nationalists are at heart anti-Communist, but their appeal overlaps with a growing blue-collar nostalgia for the despotic simplicities of the Stalinist...
...military confrontation in the heart of Europe is waning, so there should be significant cuts in our defense budget. Security should be based on some new relationship between the two alliances, rather than a dissolution of the two alliances. Perhaps there could be a long-term arrangement for a transitional NATO and Warsaw Pact presence in the respective parts of a reconfederated Germany, so that there is no insecurity bred...