Word: countermarch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders of Leningrad's Communist Party arranged an unprecedented demonstration to criticize Moscow for not defending the party against glasnost-inspired attacks. If this outburst reflects apparatchik sentiment, legalizing competitive groups would arouse not only outrage but perhaps a concerted effort to oust Gorbachev. The Leningrad protest provoked a countermarch by some 40,000 incensed citizens who proclaimed their support for Gorbachev's efforts to rejuvenate the party through open criticism...
Ronald Reagan has tried to stage a countermarch. At his first press conference after he took office in 1981, Reagan said that some affirmative action programs had been "distorted" into quota systems. "I'm old enough to remember," he said, "when quotas existed in the U.S. for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again." Since then, his Justice Department has aggressively attacked the use of racial preference in hiring and promotion. William Bradford Reynolds, the outspoken chief of the Justice Department's civil rights division, insists that affirmative action has done more harm...