Article: Bush Pushes `Peace Through Strength'; Churchill `Iron Curtain' Speech Recalled; Dukakis Tank Ride Ridiculed

Article: International conspiracy in and around The Iron Curtain.
Velvet Light Trap;  March 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ......States and the Soviet Union. This film positioned...Cold War and iron curtain to characterize...February 1946 iron curtain speech in Fulton...alliance with the Soviet Union. The movie was...Century-Fox. The Iron Curtain was the first...and fear of the ...

Article: iron curtain
Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage;      149 words ...iron curtain. The phrase had its origin...the postwar years by the Soviet Union. The locus classicus...in the Adriatic , an iron curtain has descended across the...and the collapse of the Soviet Union has caused it to lose...

Article: Bennett to Soviets: Raise Iron Curtain
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 21, 1986 ;     258 words ......Bennett today appealed to the Soviet Union to "raise the Iron Curtain" and allow American intellectuals...including himself, to teach in Soviet classrooms and appear on...welcome a visit in return by Soviet Deputy Minister of Education...many are ignorant of the Soviet ...

Article: Tough prez tore down Iron Curtain.(News)
The Boston Herald;  June 6, 2004 ;     423 words ......was elected in 1980, the Iron Curtain was an accepted fact of life...Ronald Reagan brought the Soviet Union to its knees, peacefully...tension. He identified the Soviet Union for what it was, and he put...after a militarily robust Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, ...

Article: Iron Curtain Lifts for the Expectant Capitals Today
The Washington Post;  September 14, 1989 ;     699 words ......Thursday the Washington Capitals enter the Soviet Union, which promises to be more than just eight...America. Five of the 29 Capitals have been to the Soviet Union before and they have been encouraging teammates...defenseman Chris Felix, a six-time visitor to the Soviet Union with ...

Article: When the `Iron Curtain' Fell (Cont'd.)
The Washington Post;  October 18, 1991 ;     90 words ...My entry to the "Iron Curtain" quotation contest: Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, writing of his first trip to the Soviet Union in 1926, tells of hearing "verses of some Russian poet" while traveling from Athens to Odessa: An iron curtain Is falling on Russian history with a crashing ...

Article: Hungary's lesson for democracy advocates; Fifty years ago Monday, the 1956 Hungarian uprising put a crack in the Iron Curtain. But freedom came decades later.(WORLD)
The Christian Science Monitor;  October 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ......as the first crack in the Iron Curtain, and are credited with starting...1989 and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Soviets committed...of the uprising. When the Soviet Union was pressing the UN to drop...action. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, researchers ...

Article: 1946: the iron curtain & the Cold War: after World War II, the United States and its Allies began a 40-year struggle to contain the spread of Soviet Communism.(TIMES PAST)
New York Times Upfront;  February 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ......people behind the Iron Curtain. * In a 100-word...FAST FACT * The Soviet Union voluntarily ended...brief reply to the Iron Curtain speech. Stalin...Moscow. The words iron curtain were buried deep...home state.) 'THE SOVIET SPHERE' Churchill...against Germany. An ...

Article: BEYOND THE COLOR LINE AND THE IRON CURTAIN: READING ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN BLACK AND RED
Comparative Literature;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...BEYOND THE COLOR LINE AND THE IRON CURTAIN: READING ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN...Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain adds an invaluable new dimension...socialist states, especially the Soviet Union, played in the ideological...Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain also ...

Article: NEW EUROPE, NEW IRON CURTAIN.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  April 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ......month, but they can't stay. They're shut behind a new Iron Curtain -- a 2,400-mile economic frontier separating the former Soviet Union from the newly expanded EU and the stability and prosperity...borders against traffickers and terrorists. The old Iron Curtain was a Cold War border ...

Article: Books Bring Old Iron Curtain Spots Into the Fold
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 17, 1996 ;     581 words ...Travel books on countries once behind the Iron Curtain are rolling off the presses at express-tra...since independence from the former Soviet Union, become tourist hot spots. Bradt Publications...over the country following the former Soviet Union's occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968...

Article: Iron Curtain Rises in Missouri Town; Churchill's Speech in Fulton Helped Mold Cold War Consciousness
The Washington Post;  September 3, 1991 ;     700+ words ......Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the...times intimidated by the Soviet Union since that March day when...Communist Party collapsed in the Soviet Union in 1991. Last week, Phillips...watch the Supreme Soviet, the Soviet Union's legislature, on ...

Article: Author le carre was 'tempted' to defect to Russia ; A westcountry author has revealed that he thought about defecting to the Soviet Union during the Cold War because he was curious about life behind the Iron Curtain.
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  September 15, 2008 ;     395 words ......author has revealed that he thought about defecting to the Soviet Union during the Cold War because he was curious about life behind the Iron Curtain. John Le Carre, real name David Cornwell, began writing...Philby was stripped of his OBE but was celebrated in the Soviet Union, where ...

Article: Nato new recruits hail end of 'Iron Curtain divisions'
The Independent - London;  March 13, 1999 ;     467 words ......the military orbit of the Soviet Union, the Czech Republic, Hungary...themselves excluded by the Iron Curtain. Churchill had given his "Iron Curtain" speech a little more than...bipolar world symbolised by the Iron Curtain".