Word: centering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Today, the ANC has captured center stage in South Africa," said Walter Sisulu, 77, the group's former general secretary, from a podium erected beneath huge banners of the ANC and the South African Communist Party. He and six ANC colleagues were freed unconditionally from prison October 15. All but one had spent at least 25 years in prison...
...Gabriel Schoenfeld--then a graduate fellow at the Russian Research Center--pointed out in The New York Times in 1984, the succession battle imminent at the time would be one between Karpov, a political "today, and the more individualistic Kasparov. And while Schoenfeld predicted that the Soviet government would back Karpov, Kasparov's success and the very openness with which he criticizes Gorbachev today are a political sign in themselves...
Discussions today will center on internalreservation issues such as water rights, educationand taxation. Indigenous people's rights will alsobe taken up in an international context
...final stop of a highly publicized American tour, outspoken World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov yesterday blasted the leader of his native Soviet Union in a free-for-all question-and-answer session at Harvard's Russian Research Center...
...hour at the center in Coolidge Hall, about 60 Soviet scholars and local chess enthusiasts shot. questions at Kasparov, who in 1985 became the youngest chess Grand master in history at age 22. Kasparov, a full member of the Soviet Communist Party since 1984 and a Azerbaijani Central Committee member, will play an exhibition chess match in Cambridge today...