Word: pact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yacht-just a 12-ft. canoe, the Truluv. His stereo rig would be spurned by the average twelve-year-old. The Corum $20-gold-piece watch he sports is a ten-year-old gift from friends. A couple of years ago, he and Nancy made a pact for a mutual Christmas gift, a power log splitter...
...barrages against the Solidarity union federation, accusing its leaders of spreading "dirty and slanderous" anti-Soviet propaganda. As part of a well-orchestrated proletarian protest, workers at Moscow's Hammer and Sickle steel plant approved a letter denouncing Solidarity as a band of "counterrevolutionaries" and invoking the Warsaw Pact's duty to "defend socialism and its achievements from any encroachments." Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, bitterly accused the West of "interference in [Poland's] internal affairs" in the hope of "shaking loose the socialist foundations of the Polish...
...trying to subdue another "fraternal" nation. Moreover, a military invasion by the Kremlin is not necessary. There is no present threat to the Soviet strategic position, and no one in the Solidarity leadership is seriously questioning Poland's status as a Communist nation or membership in the Warsaw Pact...
...most ludicrous. All it will do is make the Poles even more angry. It will increase the chances of having them declare a civil war." Provoking Poland's economic demise could also hurt other East bloc nations, whose economies are closely interlocked. Because of military reasons, the Warsaw Pact nations also do not want Poland to plunge into chaos; the country occupies a strategic position in the alliance's defenses. Even before Moscow began threatening to play the economic card, Warsaw's creditors in the West were seeking ways of shoring up their ailing almsman. Last April...
Kabalinski criticized Solidarity, singling out the recent call for other Warsaw Pact nations' workers to follow its lead as "idealistic" but "politically counterproductive...