Word: communisms
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...that the economy is going through the painful transition from communism to capitalism, Czechoslovakia is learning how hard it is to shut down such an important industry. As many as 80,000 jobs, the bulk of them in the restive and depressed region of Slovakia, depend on it. The federal government has pledged to cut output to 25% of 1988 levels by 1993, but already Slovak politicians have slowed down that timetable to stave off mass unemployment. Last month federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa took a scolding from his Israeli counterpart, Yitzhak Shamir, over a still pending agreement to sell...
...sermons based on the Ten Commandments, John Paul denounced excessive materialism, divorce, contraception and the separation of church and state, imploring Poles not to stray from the Catholic values that had helped deliver ) them from communism. He saved his most stinging comments for abortion, which has been legal since 1956 but is now in danger of being outlawed by a church- backed bill under consideration in Poland's parliament. At an outdoor Mass in Radom, the Pontiff compared abortion to the Holocaust and sternly asked, "What parliament has the right to say, 'You are free to kill'?" The polite applause...
...past couple of years has brought a windfall of improvements in the world: the collapse of communism; the dismantling of apartheid; the end of the cold war and the nuclear menace, at least in its apocalyptic Big Power form. State violence (in the style of Hitler, Stalin, Ceausescu) seemed to be skulking off in disrepute. Francis Fukuyama, a former U.S. State Department policy planner, even proclaimed "the end of history." The West and democratic pluralism seemed to have triumphed: satellites and computers and ; communications and global business dissolved the old monoliths in much of the world. Humankind could take satisfaction...
That would be a far better outcome than a flat-out rebel military victory, which would leave the Tigrean faction in a dominant position. The group's leaders, once Albanian-style Marxists who now espouse a blend of old-fashioned communism and American-flavored democracy, are widely distrusted in Ethiopia...
...communism wanes, Dionne sees the 1990s as a rare opportunity to merge the politics of left and right into a new "politics of the center." In some issues there may be room for compromise. But it seems unlikely that at a time when both parties are struggling to define themselves anew, either will seek to cohabit with the other...