Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freedom!" and "End to one party rule!" cried the demonstrators in Prague. Their protest began with a few hundred people in central Wenceslas Square and turned into a triumphal march for democracy, accompanied by the clanging of bells from sympathetic trolley-car drivers. Bystanders jangled their keys in solidarity...
...council also passed a resolution in memory of the recent killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter by uniformed assassins at the University of Central America in EI Salvador. The measure called for "an end to all military aid and intervention in EI Salvador...
...Monday, November 20, The Crimson ran two editorials about the Harvard Radcliffe Committee on Central America (COCA). John Thompson complained that COCA's abrasive tactics did a "disservice to a politically-torn country" by alienating and scaring students...
...Central Committee responded in co-opting language. "The German Democratic Republic is in the midst of an awakening," it declared. "A revolutionary people's movement has brought into motion a process of great change." Besides underlining its commitment to free elections, the committee promised separation of the Communist Party from the state, a "socialist planned economy oriented to market conditions," legislative oversight of internal security, and freedom of press and assembly...
...them." That phrase is cited with increasing frequency these days, but the sentiment is old. Clemenceau expressed it first as he wistfully reflected on the delicate balance of power nurtured in the 19th century by Austria's Prince Metternich. Since World War II the division of Germany has been central both to the tensions of the cold war and to the stability of the cold peace that accompanied...