Word: beene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Is Gorbachev "for real"? Let us look again at the editorial page of the New York Times: "One week ago Russia came of age. She allowed her people all the fun and trappings of a real election -- voting not publicly by show of hands but in private in red-curtained...
I do not question his sincerity. He is profoundly sincere in wanting to rescue the Soviet system from a terminal illness. He has been bold and courageous in pursuing that goal. We should help him -- but only if his reforms go far enough to have a chance to succeed and...
Since 1977 nearly 50 government opponents have been murdered under murky circumstances, the victims of apparent assassinations. Few of their killers have been identified, let alone apprehended by the authorities. Last week long-standing suspicions that police hit squads were behind at least some of the murders were bolstered by...
The government had been under growing pressure to take action since the hit- squad affair burst onto the front pages of the country's newspapers in October. At that time a prisoner on death row, former policeman Butana Almond Nofomela, alleged that he had been part of a team that...
In launching the new probe, officials said they would prosecute Nofomela for his role in Mxenge's murder. They also planned to issue a warrant for Coetzee's arrest. But tracking him down is proving to be difficult. Coetzee, who apparently made his confession out of fear that his former...