| Mikhail Gorbachev embraced this policy of liberation known in Russian as an openness in government combined with a greater degree of free expression. |
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| A treaty signed by twelve members of the European Community and most of the seven nations of the European Free Trade Association which anticipated the creation of a European Economic Area, providing for the elimination of national barriers to the movement of capital, goods and services, and people between member states, and planned the future use of a common currency. |
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| I was the electrician from Gdansk who became the leader of the Polish Solidarity movement. |
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| This organization was created in 1967 and subsidized
farmers and some favored industries and transferred money from
wealthier northern states to poorer members like Greece and
Portugal and eliminated troublesome tariffs. |
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| The policy practiced by Bosnian Serbs which forced non-Serbs from their homes and drove them away or imprisoned them. |
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| I am the current Prime Minister
of England who has implemented a "third way" program, reducing
Labour's traditional reliance on state action to address social
problems. |
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| The United States and the Soviet
Union signed this treaty in July 1991 which called for a reduction
in the number of long-range nuclear warheads and bombs held
by each country by about one-third over a period of seven years. |
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| A restructuring of the Soviet system in order
to make it more efficient and responsive to the needs of soviet
citizens. |
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| A governmental organization
founded on December 8, 1991 which composed of former Soviet
republics and a partial successor to the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics. |
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| A war fought early in 1991 between Iraq and a coalition of 39 countries organized mainly by the US and the United Nations which took place chiefly in Iraq and the tiny oil-rich nation of Kuwait. |
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| I was the leader of the Serb Communist Party
who turned the Communist Party and state apparatus into instruments
serving Serb nationalist interest, preparing to establish a
"Greater Serbia" if Yugoslavia broke up. |
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| The United States and Russia
signed this treaty in 1993 which would cut the total number
of US and former Soviet long-range nuclear warheads and bombs
to less than half. |
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| This leader of the Civic Forum was the first
president elected under free elections in Czechoslovakia after
the fall of the Communists in 1989. |
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| Orchestrated in November 1995 by the US Government, Bosnia was to remain a single state that included a Bosnian-Croatian federation and a Serb Republic. |
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| I awarded myself titles such as "Genius of the Carpathians" and the "Danube of Thought" and vowed that reform would come to Romania "when pears grow on poplar trees". |
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| A bloodless revolution led by writers, actors, and students in Czechoslovakia which swept away communism. |
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| A charismatic person and former mayor of Moscow, I rose to power in Russia as a liberal reformer challenging Gorbachev's authority and the very legitimacy of the Soviet state. |
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| I undertook reform in the Soviet Union in a last attempt to save the Communist state. |
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| I led the Christian Democrats
in their return to power in 1982 in West Germany and I conntinued
to dominate the political life of the German Federal Republic. |
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| I was nicknamed the "Iron Lady"
and was the first woman to become the British Prime Minister
who committed herself to ending completely the government's
control over major industries and to slashing government expenses. |
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