Word: foreigner
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Mladenov's ascendancy in Bulgaria was the result of deep interparty wrangling that was fueled by a policy clash over Zhivkov's persecution of the country's large Turkish minority. The racist program raised an international uproar that embarrassed Mladenov, who was then Foreign Minister. Mladenov is believed to have rallied support among the Politburo to stage a civilian coup against Zhivkov. After a decisive vote, the new overlord of Bulgaria quickly adopted the language of reform to rally public support and consolidate power. Despite his stated preference for free elections, Mladenov has said nothing about abandoning the Communists' "leading...
...will subsidize." Since then the pace of change in Eastern Europe has accelerated so quickly that the F.M.L.N. may be worried that it will be forgotten by its Communist patrons. Toward that end, the F.M.L.N. may have been reminding both the Cristiani and Bush administrations that with or without foreign Communist support, the guerrillas must be part of any eventual settlement...
...them, to the consternation of critics who had reproached him for indecision and timidity. The President did just that in presenting arms-reduction proposals to a NATO meeting last May and again in arranging his Malta summit with Mikhail Gorbachev, to be held Dec. 2-3. Says Kim Holmes, foreign policy and defense analyst at the Heritage Foundation, which Bush has asked for summit- planning recommendations: "When George Bush gets put up against the ropes politically, he usually pulls off something bold and successful...
...major substantive mistake or public relations flop. The President and his briefers seem to have invested far more time in considering how to counter a surprise Gorbachev proposal than in pondering what Europe -- and the U.S. role in it -- will be like ten years from now. Says one foreign policy official: "We've got plenty of philosophy and vision for 'a Europe whole and free' ((one of Bush's standard phrases)). What we don't have is practical ideas for building this new Europe. Do we use wood or cinder blocks? Where do we lay out the walls?" White House...
...political revolution has discovered the fax revolution. Overseas sympathizers of China's student movement last spring quickly learned that the official news blackout could be effectively penetrated through the use of facsimile machines. They used faxes to get foreign press reports into China...