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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ease the tragic crisis of our age. In 1968 I took my decisive step by publishing Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom. The book rejected all extremes, the intransigence shared by revolutionaries and reactionaries alike. It called for compromise and for progress, moderated by enlightened conservatism and caution. Marx notwithstanding, evolution is a better "locomotive of history" than revolution: the "battle" I had in mind was nonviolent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of an Activist | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

ESSAY: Some words of caution from Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134, No. 25 DECEMBER 18, 1989 | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...exercise in private commiseration and public obfuscation. With Bush at his side at their joint press conference, Gorbachev said that "history" should be allowed to determine the status of the two Germanys, and he warned against any "artificial acceleration" of the "process of change." It was a telling caution coming from the Great Accelerator himself. Bush then flew off to Brussels, where he enunciated a masterpiece of gobbledygook, intended to sound receptive to German reunification someday far in the future. There was a similar better-later- than-soon tone to the endorsement that Kohl received over the weekend from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Braking the Juggernaut | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...armed forces, an effective 10% drawdown in manpower and hardware. He earned loud cheers and enthusiastic praise around the world, but not from the newly elected leader in Washington. George Bush was into his prudence thing, not his vision thing. As the Administration took shape, it radiated not just caution but skepticism, with lots of grumbling about Gorbasms and Gorbomania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: America Abroad: Reciprocity at Last | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...Here caution is indicated. Western Europe lay in ruins in 1945, but attitudes and skills had survived. The invisible destruction in Eastern Europe is worse than the visible devastation wrought by war. Managerial talents have been blighted by a half-century under an economic system that practiced pick- a-number pricing, taught enterprises to hoard inventory and rewarded them for producing a million left shoes. As Mikhail Gorbachev is discovering, it is much easier to learn to use political freedoms than to revive a moribund command economy. Casting secret ballots, speaking up in public, banding together to advance common interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Go East, Young Man? | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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