...sharp reduction in military spending and a willingness to ignore ominous developments along the Pacific Rim and in Eastern Europe. But when communist aggression reached a boiling point on the Korean Peninsula, moral duty and national interests...
...those who have, whether the dictatorship was in ancient Rome, Latin America, Africa, Nazi Germany, Communist Eastern Europe, or today's China. We should revere martyrs, but not demand every Christian be one."We should, however...
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union now have...the HIV infection rate in Russia and Eastern Europe remains well behind the level in Africa...nowhere is the rate rising faster than in Eastern Europe," Piot said. There were an estimated...
...portion of their assets outside the United States. Those folks must be persuaded to diversify even further by adding Eastern Europe to the mix. That region suffers from a perception that it is struggling with a slow economy and with the reality...
...moved to the Montana and Dakota territories in the 1870s after being forced to move from previous homes in Germany, eastern Europe and Russia due to persecution. They then moved into Canada after World War I when members were arrested for not enlisting...
...Bashar al-Assad of Syria should be next. But the history of revolutions against dictatorships - in Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East itself - tells a different story: The more immediate and uncompromising the justice for a dictator...
...among the most memorable, however. Ford famously baffled audiences when he said, "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe." Later pressed by the moderator, he refused to back down. The moment haunted the rest of his losing campaign...
...Vietnam war. Jan. 6. Jiri Dienstbier, 73. A reporter turned dissident who joined Vaclav Havel to help topple one of Eastern Europe's most repressive regimes, then served under Havel in Czechoslovakia's first post-communist government. Jan...
...science fiction. Parks wouldn't mind the adventure of traveling the Trans-Canadian Highway to Alaska or seeing Eastern Europe, Hawaii, or just hooking up a travel trailer and criss-crossing America - choosing a direction by throwing a dart...
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