Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday, police had quelled the protests and banned a memorial planned for the weekend at Palach's birthplace, in a village about 20 miles north of Prague. Government officials assailed the rallies as antistate provocation aimed at capturing international attention. Said the Communist Party daily Rude pravo: "The instigators of these actions are intent on destabilizing our society, on pressuring the socialist state." Instigators such as Mikhail Gorbachev, perhaps? Ironically, many of the demonstrators had been chanting "Gorbachev, Gorbachev" and "Gorbachev is watching you," invoking the Soviet leader whose political reforms the Czech leadership claims to support...
...decades, Kampuchea has been torn by one of the 20th century's goriest conflicts. During its 3 1/2-year reign, the sternly Communist Khmer Rouge killed anywhere from 1 million to 2 million Kampucheans in a genocidal resettlement program. Up to another million fled, swarming into refugee camps across the border in Thailand. In 1979 invading Vietnamese troops overthrew the murderous Pol Pot. Since then, the Hanoi-backed government in Phnom Penh has been at war with a coalition of three rebel factions that includes as many as 35,000 fighters of the ousted Khmer Rouge...
While others in the East bloc have been talking about democratization, Hungary has been doing it. Last week, with the blessing of Communist Party leader Karoly Grosz, the parliament passed new laws giving Hungarians the right to form independent political parties and participate in public demonstrations. The legislature also agreed to enact a further measure needed to enfranchise the parties by Aug. 1, giving them ample time to prepare for next year's legislative elections...
...seven months since Grosz succeeded the long-ruling Janos Kadar as head of Hungary's Communist Party, dozens of independent political associations have begun organizing. Though there is no legal provision for such parties, the reform-minded Grosz regime has not challenged them. Communist regimes have not been known for power sharing, and skeptics wonder if a true multiparty system will emerge. But Karoly Ravasz, spokesman for the | Independent Smallholders party, was convinced that the change was genuine. Said he: "We are now on the road of a pluralist society...
...second time in four months, demonstrators in Yugoslavia have toppled regional leaders. After two days of giant street protests by as many as 100,000 workers and students in the city of Titograd last week, the entire state and Communist Party leadership of the Republic of Montenegro tendered its resignation. The people responded by dancing in the streets, chanting, "Montenegro has risen" and "Down with armchair politicians...