Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...announce with a flourish at their summit meeting next week. But by the time Secretary of State James Baker left Moscow on Saturday, after four days of talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and a five-hour visit with Gorbachev, basic agreement on the most significant arms-control treaty ever negotiated seemed ready for the summiteers to approve...
...measure of his domestic difficulties that Gorbachev's most solid accomplishment came in foreign affairs. After four days of talks between U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Moscow, the two sides made substantial progress on a new arms-control treaty, making it likely that Gorbachev and George Bush can announce a basic agreement at next week's summit in Washington...
...Gorbachev's brand of perestroika. Russia contains 75% of the Soviet Union's land, half of its people and most of its natural resources, which many Russians complain are being used to develop the other 14 republics. If Yeltsin and his radical supporters take over, they pledge to wrest control of those resources from the central government. While they do not favor actual secession, they take a literal stand on Russia's claim to sovereignty. Said Yeltsin: "Russia is a state, not a republic, with all the rights that entails, including its own ministries and its own foreign policy...
...cadets in civilian clothes marched in front of the Latvian parliament. President Anatolijs Gorbunovs agreed to accept a petition from the Russians and to set up a commission to deal with their grievances. Most Baltic nationalists assume, however, that the demonstrators' real intention is to maintain Moscow's control rather than protect the rights of ethnic Russians...
...flock to Rome, while Milan may be serving as host for the Summer Olympics. To spread out the traffic, Expo organizers propose holding their fair from January to April -- just when the canals most frequently overflow their banks. Argues Cesare De Michelis: "The idea of the Expo is to control tourism, not increase...