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Profile: US reaction after Soviet Union successfully orbited the world's first artificial satellite in 1957
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NPR All Things Considered
10-04-2002
Profile: US reaction after Soviet Union successfully orbited the world's first artificial satellite in 1957
Host: ROBERT SIEGEL, JACKI LYDEN
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel.
JACKI LYDEN, host:
And I'm Jacki Lyden.
Forty-five years ago today, the Soviet Union startled the world and panicked the United S...
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Profile: US reaction after Soviet Union successfully orbited the world's first artificial satellite in 1957
All Things Considered (NPR)
; ... This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. JACKI LYDEN, host ... 1: This is Radio Moscow and here is the news. Unidentified Anchor #1: As a result of ... technology. The Soviets knew that they did. The news broke on Friday night, too late for the ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Flight from the Kremlin. (post-coup changes in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe) (editorial)
The Economist (US)
; ... But it is not just the republics that disagree about lines on maps. Inside Russia itself, bits of that huge republic want out. Mordovia ... a break-up too. Yugoslavia writ enormous That is not all, for maps reveal little about people. The schemers and planners of the ...
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Making up. (Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia)
The Economist (US)
; IN DECIDING to restore diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, Saudi Arabia has helped Mr Mikhail Gorbachev to claim something of a foreign-policy coup. Soviet diplomats have been wooing the Saudis for years. Now Mr Gorbachev can point to the final clinch as a bonus for his toughness with Iraq.
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Anniversary of Soviet Union's Breakup Stirs Emotions in Russia.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; By Dave Montgomery, Knight Ridder Washington Bureau Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 25--VOLGOGRAD, Russia -- Ten years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Pyotr Alkhutov still mourns its passing. The 78-year ...
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The wolf at the door. (Soviet Union asking for assistance from the International Monetary Fund)
The Economist (US)
; The Soviet Union has long seen the IMF as a neo-imperialist tool. Now it is knocking on the IMF's door. Why are rich countries reluctant to let it in? ONLY a week before George Bush went to Moscow for his summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union applied to the International Monetary
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Alternative Soviet futures. (forecast on Soviet Union's future political and military policy)
The Futurist
; The Soviet Union can be expected to move in radically new directions in the future, according to a political and intelligence analyst. In fact, he says, the only certainty is change. The range of future possibilities for the Soviet Union has never been greater, argues Arnold L. Horelick, senior
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Ten years after fall of Soviet Union, some Russians still yearn for the old days.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; VOLGOGRAD, Russia _ Ten years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Pyotr Alkhutov still mourns its passing. The 78-year-old faced death as a Soviet soldier to preserve his nation during one of World War II's decisive conflicts, the Battle of Stalingrad. On Dec. 25, 1991, as Soviet President Mikhail
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Yeltsin's army. (coup attempt in Soviet Union) (editorial)
The Economist (US)
; Or just 60 amazing hours the spectre of the cold-war Soviet Union returned to grip the world, before being exorcised as never before. If the coup that deposed Mikhail Gorbachev as Soviet president had not been defeated so swiftly, the West's hopes of Soviet co-operation in a less antagonistic world
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The Awakening of the Soviet Union.
The Economist (US)
; THE AWAKENING OF THE SOVIET UNION THIS short book is the most useful and reliable guide to the chaos of the current Soviet Union. It is comprehensive, but not suffocating. It is reasonably up-to-date (providing four lucid pages on the background to the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict), and it gives a
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CRISIS IN THE SOVIET UNION
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... He left a note saying everything he had devoted his life to building was now collapsing. Press freedom: The official Soviet news agency Tass, which told the world a week ago that communist hard-liners had made a power grab, said Russian Information Minister ...
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