Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Moscow is visibly scrambling to find a way to contain this spreading chaos without resorting to repression. Like every Soviet leader since Lenin, Gorbachev faced a nationalities problem; he simply did not know how to solve it. A special party Central Committee meeting on the issue was repeatedly delayed. When it finally convened last September, it was evident that the postponement had done little good, and Kremlin planners continued to underestimate the strength of rising nationalism. The policy they put forth was a vague collection of homilies on the inadmissibility of secession and the importance of economic integration. "Our party...
...adopted more unconventional approaches to Bush and his White House. Earlier this season, ABC's Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer did an hour-long interview with Bush and his popular wife Barbara on PrimeTime Live. Last week NBC's Tom Brokaw accompanied Bush through a "typical" day for a special titled A Day in the Life of the White House. The show illustrated just how vain is the hope that a President can be understood merely by being followed around...
...typical" schedule that NBC nearly missed the one spontaneous event of the day. Daughter-in-law Margaret Bush unexpectedly dropped by the Oval Office to show off her newly adopted son Charles. A quick-witted aide hurried an NBC crew in to capture what turned out to be the special's most affecting scene...
Conveying that elusive reality in documentaries or news footage -- or in written dispatches, for that matter -- is often impossible. As press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said on Brokaw's special, the press sees only about 10% of what really goes on in the White House. Fitzwater's remark was the most candid line in the show. In view of television's continued reliance on pictures to tell the White House story, it was also the most cautionary...
...SPECIAL SECTION: The Soviet Union teeters on the brink of disintegration as republics revolt against the center How Gorbachev moves to save his crumbling empire will affect not only his country but also the world. ^ A chorus of complaints from around the union. > A resurgence of both Russian nationalism and Islamic fervor inspires worries about communal discord. ^ Why a Soviet historian believes the empire should collapse...