The End of the Cold War. 1985-1991
402 THE END OF THE COLD WAR guaranteed majority in the Sejm, secured his own re-election as President, albeit by only one vote. ...
REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE 403 Political Consultative Committee of the Warsaw Pact in Bucharest. It was an astonishing occasio ...
404 THE END OF THE COLD WAR a free national election. Every cliché about worldwide communism was being dispelled. The Americans ...
REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE 405 affair.’ Yakovlev sought assurances that Poland would remain inside the Warsaw Pact. On receivi ...
406 THE END OF THE COLD WAR undermined the bastions of the communist state. A quiet revolution with near-universal popular suppo ...
REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE 407 on 20 September was unprecedented – and for this reason it was important that the Defence Minis ...
408 THE END OF THE COLD WAR undermine the stability of the entire international situation and could lead to threats to our secur ...
REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE 409 mind.^54 On 18 October the East German Politburo took decisive action by firing Honecker and ma ...
410 THE END OF THE COLD WAR faced disturbances. They took place under the severe eyes of the Secu- ritate in northern Romania an ...
REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE 411 He insisted that they wished to preserve the separate alliances of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.^64 ...
412 THE END OF THE COLD WAR saving. He did not intend to save the Wall. His aim was to manage the East German crisis quietly. Kr ...
REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE 413 would think this to be in their interest. As he saw it, the Kremlin lacked accurate information ...
414 THE END OF THE COLD WAR Kohl’s failure to give advance warning of his Ten Points caused fear in both Moscow and the Western ...
REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE 415 order was collapsing across Eastern Europe and not a Soviet bullet was fired in anger. It was a ...
36. THE MALTA SUMMIT Bush resisted the temptation to go to Eastern Europe to celebrate the revolutionary upsurge. Senator George ...
THE MALTA SUMMIT 417 treaties with the USSR; he was proposing a policy of inactivity as being the best for the American administ ...
418 THE END OF THE COLD WAR introduced an acceptable law on freedom of emigration. America’s interest, in his opinion, lay in ac ...
THE MALTA SUMMIT 419 that things could crumble. At times it was prudent to agree to sterner guidelines than they thought that Go ...
420 THE END OF THE COLD WAR for his draft law on freedom of conscience in the USSR. Gorbachëv said he hoped that his country and ...
THE MALTA SUMMIT 421 Gorbachëv offered praise for Bush. The President responded warmly and recounted that, on the flight to Vall ...
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