Word: ares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a two-day session, the 21 members of the ruling Politburo issued a statement that for the first time expressed official concern about the recent exodus of 50,000 East Germans to the West. Then, in an unprecedented gesture of conciliation, the leadership acknowledged, "We are open to discussion...
The demands of East Germany's reformers seem mild when compared with the changes unleashed by opposition forces in Poland, Hungary and the Soviet Baltic states. The unfocused New Forum has called for its own legalization, dialogue with authorities and basic civil rights. Only now is it beginning to identify...
Some members will not go even that far. Beneath the New Forum umbrella are half a dozen smaller groups that bear such optimistic names as Democratic Awakening and Movement for Democracy Now. One of them, the United Left, seeks to eliminate the ruling party's Stalinist heritage and to form...
Freed by Mikhail Gorbachev to report on the corrupt and famous, Soviet journalists are busy pushing glasnost toward its tabloid outer limits -- tracking down space visitors and exploring psychic mysteries. Science takes a whirl with fantasy. Fiction runs away with the facts. Humanoids abduct humans.
"Where are you from?" asked Mukhortov.