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Dates: during 1990-1990
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From the situation in the markets, I believe that the Soviet Union has to use the services of capitalism -- the system we have made it our goal to defeat (I mean, of course, economically). We ought to be able to give our people more than the capitalist world gives. After all, the Soviet socialist system is the most progressive in the world. Yet even after 50 years, communist parties are still unable to win in parliamentary elections. This is something to think about. People refuse to follow us. We are not yet a mirror into which the West wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khrushchev's Secret Tapes | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...when we were debating whether or not to use military force against the counterrevolution in Hungary, I had a sharp disagreement with another comrade, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, which caused me genuine sadness. Anastas Ivanovich and I were very close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khrushchev's Secret Tapes | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

Anastas Ivanovich was quite agitated. He even threatened to do something to himself as a sign of protest -- I don't want to use his ominous words -- something about ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khrushchev's Secret Tapes | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...would be hard for someone who started college in 1969 to be an undercover freshman. My speech would betray me as surely as my graying hair. Awesome is a word I would use to describe the Grand Canyon -- not the latest Jon Bon Jovi album, which is, like, totally awesome to my young classmates. Still, some - collegespeak can be surprisingly descriptive. "Yeah, it was great," one student says of his summer vacation in Paris. "Except I felt like a total Piltdown when I tried to order food." I know exactly what he means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lancaster, Pennsylvania College Days: Then and Now | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...after reading on-the-record comments that Dugan, in office only 79 days, made to Washington Post and Los Angeles Times correspondents accompanying him on a week-long trip through the Middle East. Dugan, a West Point graduate, talked in considerable detail about classified operational plans, including the use of Saudi bases for American B-52 flights in wartime and training routines for the supersecret F-117A Stealth fighters. In comments deeply distressing to America's allies, Dugan advocated bombing Iraqi cities --including downtown Baghdad--and said, "I don't expect to be concerned" about political constraints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready, Aim, Fired | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

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