Word: alle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, the choice of Choi held out a realistic hope for gradual liberalization. A Confucian scholar's son who speaks five foreign languages (English, German, French, Japanese and Chinese), Choi describes himself as "a caretaker." What Korea needs most, he has told friends, "is not a hero but a...
Indeed, one of the reasons for Lynch's resignation was his willingness after the Mountbatten assassination to cooperate with the British in efforts to assist the cause of peace. He allowed some cooperation between Irish and British security forces, including an agreement that permitted British helicopters to fly into...
In a post-election press conference, Haughey tried to sound like both peacemaker and patriot. "I'm tinged with green, all right," he conceded, but added firmly: "I condemn the provisional I.R.A. and all their activities." Yet his stance on Ulster's future was clearly hawkish: re-unification...
Since late last year, "democracy wall," along Peking's broad Chang An Avenue, represented a unique and hopeful experiment in China's tightly controlled society. It was a place where everyone from political critics to whimsical poets could paste up wall posters, which are protected by China'...
In theory, democracy wall was not closed down; it was merely moved elsewhere. Posters will still be allowed at a newly designated "wall for free expression," in the small Yuetan (Moon Altar) Park in western Peking. From now on, all authors will be required to register their names, pseudonyms, addresses...