Seize the Moment (41 page)

     U.N. and,
29
,
33
,
34
–35

     U.S. involvement in,
29
–30,
210
,
300

     Western Allies and,
126
,
127
,
139

Peru,
247
,
249
,
251
,
262

Philippines,
20
,
28
,
148
,
209
,
233
,
247
,
249
–50,
265
,
275

Pinochet, Augusto,
249

Pitt, William,
299

Poland,
16
,
17
,
18
–19,
90
,
117
,
119
,
127
–29,
130
,
133
,
134
,
135

     economic transformation of,
131
–132

population control,
263

Population Registration,
258

poverty,
263
,
270

     communism and,
233
,
235

     in Latin America,
245

     in Middle East,
213
–14

     in underdeveloped world,
233
–235,
245

     in U.S.,
295
–97

“Prague Spring,”
17

protectionism,
122
,
131
,
238
,
265
,
280
,
299

     in Israel,
252
–53

     Japan and,
151
,
154
,
160
,
242

     in Western Europe,
122

Pugo, Boris,
48
–49,
67

Pushkin, Alexander,
54

Qaddafi, Muammar,
121
,
201

Quemoy,
17

racism,
298

Radio Free China,
179

Radio Free Europe,
179

Radio Free Tibet,
179
,
180

Radio Liberty,
76
,
179

Rapallo Treaty,
120

Rapid Deployment Force, U.S.,
216

Reagan, Ronald,
43
,
60
,
62
,
204
,
211
,
216
,
251
,
277

reform,
26
,
118
,
132
,
133
,
169

     in China,
164
,
166
–68,
170
–71,
175
,
182
,
241

     in Eastern Europe,
14
–15,
27
–28

     by Gorbachev,
14
–15,
18
,
54
–58,
73

     U.S. aid and,
49
–50

Republican party, U.S.,
273

Republican party of Russia,
72

Romania,
16
,
19
,
57
,
135
,
275

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
59
,
300

Roosevelt, Theodore,
184
,
288

Rukh movement,
58

Russia, Imperial,
120
,
184

Russia, republic of,
46

Russian Democratic party,
72

Russian Revolution (1917),
15
,
30
,
72
,
140

Russo-Japanese War,
184

Ruutel, Arnold,
58

Sadat, Anwar,
201
,
220

Sakharov, Andrei,
47

Salinas de Gortari, Carlos,
266

SALT I treaty,
279

Saudi Arabia,
173
,
196
,
197
,
198
,
200
,
205
,
208
,
212
,
213
,
214
,
216
,
217
,
222
,
227

self-determination,
72
–73

Senate, U.S.,
124

Serbia,
126
,
129
,
135

Shanghai Communiqué,
165
,
181

Sharif Nawaz,
206

Shatalin plan,
65

Shevardnadze, Eduard,
46
,
58
,
64
,
82
,
107
–8

Shining Path,
247

Singapore,
39
,
162
,
183
,
191
,
233
,
237
,
239
,
241
,
242
,
245
,
250

Single European Act,
121

Sino-American trade agreement,
174

Slovenia,
126
,
135

Social Democrats,
72

socialism,
64
,
196
,
241
,
287
,
293
–294,
304

     in Africa,
246

     in Israel,
252
–53

     in Soviet Union,
43
–44

     Western policy and,
102
–4

Solidarity labor movement,
17
,
18

Somalia,
198
,
252
,
263
,
267

South Africa,
20
,
28

     apartheid in,
246
,
257
–59

South Yemen,
198

Soviet republics,
58
,
89
,
99
,
145
,
146

     communist deprivations in,
57

     CSCE and,
128

     elections in,
66

     independence of,
69
,
70

     nationalism in,
55
–56,
69
,
70
,
184

     Russia's importance to,
77
–78

     security vacuum of,
117

     U.S. foreign policy and,
74
–76,
139
–40

     Western aid and,
95
,
103

Soviet Union,
126
,
166
,
167
,
200
,
212
,
233
–35,
244
,
273
,
275
,
276
–77

     China's border dispute with,
164

     in cold war,
16
–18

     conflicting traditions in,
139
–40

     Cuba aided by,
17
,
52
,
91
,
93

     Eastern Europe dominated by,
114
–15

     Japan's dispute with,
184
–85,
188
–90,
193

     Jewish emigration from,
222
,
223

     Muslim world and,
198
,
202

     1973 Middle East War and,
221

     Persian Gulf ambitions of,
214

     
Persian Gulf War and,
62
–63,
214

     republics brutalized by,
57
–59

     Vietnam aided by,
259
–60

     West Germany and,
120
–21,
123

     World War II aftermath and,
25

Soviet Union, postcommunist,
14
,
26
,
48
,
61
,
113
–14,
125
–26,
132
,
149
,
183
,
206
,
223
,
279
,
304

     administrative weakness of,
71
–72

     arms control and,
83
–90

     assets of,
99
–100

     August coup in,
see
August coup

     bureaucratic system of,
43
,
69
,
101

     CFE treaty and,
27

     China's rapprochement with,
20
,
38
,
184
,
187
–88

     collapse of communism in,
122
–124

     commonwealth as goal for,
70
,
109

     democracy in,
301
–2

     democratic socialism and,
102
–4

     East Asia policy of,
184
–90,
193

     East European economy and,
90
–91,
134

     East European security vacuum and,
116
–17

     espionage activities by,
93
–94

     foreign policy of,
81
–84

     foreign vs. economic policy of,
62
–63

     free election in,
55

     German aid to,
120
–21

     imperialistic tradition of,
43
,
69
,
123

     Japanese aid to,
155
–56

     Japan's rapprochement with,
188
–89

     military spending and,
81
–83

     Muslim population of,
196

     nationalism in,
55
–56,
69
,
70
,
184

     NATO as balance to,
23

     Persian Gulf War and,
29
,
32
,
62
–63,
214

     political system of,
68
–73

     post-coup economy of,
98
–99

     reactionaries in,
15

     reform movement in,
66
–61

     self-determination and,
72
–74

     socialism and,
43
–44

     third world regimes and,
91
–92

     trade and,
23
–24

     U.S. contrasted with,
56

     Western aid to,
44
–47,
49
–50,
76
–77,
97
–100

     xenophobia of,
190

     Yeltsin's importance to,
78
–79

Spain,
25

Sri Lanka (Ceylon),
28
,
233

Stalin, Joseph,
16
,
29
,
38
,
56
,
57
,
63
,
67
,
110
,
113
,
115
,
120
,
156
,
164
,
187
,
201
–2

State Department, U.S.,
50
–51,
54
,
181

state economic interventionism,
251

Steffens, Lincoln,
101

Stein, Herbert,
278

Stevenson, Adlai,
52

Strategic Arms Reductions Treaty (START),
18
,
27
,
83
,
84
–90,
279

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI),
62
,
279

Sudan,
198

Suez crisis (1956),
17
,
59
,
210

Suharto,
207

supply-side economics,
242

Supreme Soviet,
66
,
70

Sweden,
103

Syria,
138
,
195
,
196
–97,
201
,
203
,
205
,
206
,
208
,
212

     Israel and,
173
,
222
,
223
,
225
,
228

     Soviet Union and,
17
,
91
,
198
,
221
,
222
,
227

Taiwan (Republic of China),
17
,
39
,
164
,
175
,
177
,
183
,
233
,
250

     Communist China and,
170
,
181
,
241

     exports and,
245

     growth of,
237
–38

     international standing of,
181
–82

     literacy rate of,
242

Tanzania,
252
,
263

taxes:

     in underdeveloped world,
242
–243

     U.S. deficit and,
286
–87

terrorism,
17
,
195
,
198
,
201
,
203
–204,
205
,
209
,
215
,
225

Thailand,
148
,
157
,
262
,
263

Thatcher, Margaret,
29
,
60
,
145

third world,
see
underdeveloped world

Thomas Aquinas, Saint,
280
–81

Tiananmen Square uprising,
20
,
49
,
168
–69,
171
,
172
,
174
,
176
,
177
,
179
,
182

Tibet,
179
–80

Tigre People's Liberation Front,
250

Time
,
60
,
96

Tito (Josip Broz),
16

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
111
,
118
,
289