Word: buttings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the meantime, Gorbachev's vision of an independent but cooperative international system has allowed five East European countries to emerge from communist dictatorship. They are fledglings, with no established economic or commercial systems, and even with help from Western governments and corporations, it is not certain they all will...
Historians and political scientists debate whether great forces or great men move the world. By unleashing the forces of democracy, Gorbachev gave new luster to the great-man theory. He may not be able to control those forces himself. They could even sweep him away, just as they did Egon...
The 1980s came to an end in what seemed like a magic act. The shell of an old world cracked, but a new order remained to be built. A master politician, Gorbachev could win election in many countries, but probably not his own. The Soviet threat isn't what it...
The President shows an increasing willingness to use force, but the biggest U.S. military venture since Viet Nam does not look to be an easy triumph. Operation Just Cause was well planned but flawed. Can Panama's new U.S.-installed leaders run the country? Manuel Noriega may have lost control...
Rumania's hard-line leader tries to suppress dissent by ordering a massacre, but a popular uprising drives him from office. An ugly-duckling auto, the Trabi, gets a moment of glory.