Word: closing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...words were even more shocking than his manner. Shocking to the nearly 2,000 members of the Congress of People's Deputies, meeting in a Kremlin auditorium; to his longtime close friend, President Mikhail Gorbachev, watching on the tribune behind Shevardnadze; and to a world that had been wondering with increasing apprehension which way the U.S.S.R. was going. Shevardnadze thought he knew: back toward the terrible past. "Reactionaries" were gaining power, he said, and nobody would speak out against them. "Comrade democrats!" Shevardnadze shouted, "You have scattered. Reformers have slunk into the bushes. A dictatorship is coming...
...general situation, combined with the apprehension and concern voiced by our neighbors and a general network of pressure directed against us, probably would have led to the internationalization of our internal conflict. We were very close to a fraternal regional communist conflict and to the kind of situation that occurred in Hungary in 1956 ((when the Soviets intervened militarily to put down an uprising...
...Consider this: We're on the home stretch to the millennium.The end of a century, let alone a millennium, tends to bring forth bursts of energy and confusion. Even in 1990, as the Hubble space telescope peers deeply (sometimes fuzzily) into the cosmos, sliding toward the 20th century's close feels a little like sailing off the edge of the world. No one knows what is beyond...
Sorry, No Cigar Doesn't anyone return Fidel Castro's phone calls these days? The aging dictator saw most of his communist soul mates get tossed onto the dustheap of history, and the cash-strapped Soviets may be close to ending their $5 billion annual subsidy. Castro's efforts to expand tourism won't make up the difference...
Buried by His Own Mud In the midst of a close re-election campaign against Paul Wellstone, Minnesota Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz issued a letter reminding the state's Jewish community that he was "the better Jew." He , attacked Wellstone for having "no connection" with Judaism and stated that his children "were brought up as non-Jews." At the polls, voters retired the "Rabbi of the Senate...