Word: ukrainian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...takes a dim view of China's acquiring technology from the huge, accurate, 10-warhead SS-18, the most threatening weapon in the Soviet nuclear arsenal. "We believe that would be a big mistake," Perry told reporters, "and have so represented our position to the Russian government and the Ukrainian government." Protests to Beijing on this score, he added, were "more general." Leonard Spector, who tracks nuclear proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says that if China is determined to build SS-18s, it "would be a strategic threat to us and a very fundamental new dimension...
...appeal on economic issues is rational, if simplistic. It is his language in other parts of the field that is scurrilous. In waging the culture wars, he introduces a hateful ethnic dimension. Almost all the 20th century's horrors (the slaughter of the Armenians, Stalin's starvation of the Ukrainian kulaks, the Hitler Holocaust) have begun with a demonization of others. Buchanan has a genius for techniques that bundle his enemies together and subtly satanize them. His litany of Jewish villain names (ticking off "Goldman, Sachs...Greenspan" as if they were the Elders of Zion) is slyly anti-Semitic...
...bronze bells was later given to Lowell House by an alum, who acquired them from a Ukrainian monastery earlier this century...
...become "at once my father's contemporary and a Yippie." The first connection was with "the danger zone of Jewish history" and the second with "the funhouse of America." In 1972 Halevi protested the Soviet restriction of Jewish emigration by throwing chicken blood at a touring troupe of Ukrainian dancers. He was also part of a group tossed out of Moscow for demonstrating at a visa office...
...life of a peacekeeper is pretty dangerous in any case. More than 300 Dutch troops captured by the Serbs in Srebrenica were released through Belgrade only last Friday. In besieged Zepa, the 79 Ukrainians on peacekeeping duty were first disarmed by Bosnian government soldiers, then driven into their shelters. Bosnian troops in Zepa threatened to kill the Ukrainian peacekeepers if the U.N. did not send a high-ranking negotiator. The Serbs made that impossible by closing the approach road and next day opened up with mortar and artillery fire. The Bosnian government forces responded, and some of their shells...