Word: antigovernmental
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Ever since taking over from deposed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu last winter, Romanian leader Ion Iliescu has played down his Communist background and promised his countrymen a new democratic era. But actions speak louder than words. By setting club-wielding miners loose in Bucharest last week to crush antigovernment protests, Iliescu...
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the uprising in Kwangju, where police killed 200 antigovernment demonstrators. Despite elaborate security measures, renewed demonstrations in Seoul and Kwangju are likely. Most South Koreans are more interested in solving the country's economic ills than in joining the students in the streets...
A few weeks before Congress is scheduled to debate renewal of China's most- favored-nation status, Beijing last week announced the release of 211 dissidents, jailed since last June's crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Congressional leaders, however, said they were unlikely to be swayed by the move. Senator Richard...
In the ten months since the Tiananmen crackdown, competing antigovernment groups have multiplied and even thrived beyond the borders of China, where some exiles have adopted the trappings of Western celebrity activism. In China itself, however, organized resistance was believed to be almost nonexistent -- until this month.
Poland, where major antigovernment strikes broke out in 1956, 1968, 1970, 1976 and 1980-81, mounted the first full test of Moscow's new policy. At the beginning of 1989, Polish party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski told his Central Committee that "fundamental changes" were needed to rescue the economy from work...