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These are the public signs of the rise of the right, symptoms of the approaching dictatorship Shevardnadze warned against. Only a year ago, the liberal Interregional Group of Deputies, led by maverick Boris Yeltsin, Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov and crusading historian Yuri Afanasyev and claiming more than 300 members, held the parliamentary center stage. The group called a meeting on the eve of this Congress session and fewer than 90 members turned up. Setting the pace now is the bloc of about 470 conservative Deputies calling themselves Soyuz, or Union, and dedicated to preventing the breakup of the U.S.S.R...
That thud heard last week was the sound of Europe's last Marxist dictatorship landing on the trash heap of history. Following three days of student riots in Tirana, Albanian President Ramiz Alia summoned leaders of the demonstrations to his palace. Alia then abruptly canceled the Communists' 44-year monopoly on politics. He announced that henceforth rival parties will be permitted in the interest of "further democratization...
...attitudes toward sex that soared to the top of the 1989 nonfiction best-seller list in Germany. Last week Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven (Doubleday; $21.95) hit U.S. bookstores amid a squall of controversy. In a nutshell, the author contends that Catholicism "strives to impose its own moral dictatorship without regard to the welfare of married people, a dictatorship based on pleasure-hating, celibate contempt for marriage and a maniacal cult of virginity...
...week for the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the popular priest who is the front runner in this Sunday's presidential elections and a survivor of at least three assassination attempts. Father Aristide blamed the violence on the Tontons Macoutes, the notorious secret police force loyal to the deposed Duvalier dictatorship. Together with the army, the Macoutes had forced cancellation of the 1987 elections by massacring 34 voters. But this time Haitians seemed determined to vote, no matter what calamities occurred on the campaign trail. Said a caller to Radio Haiti-Inter: "We're at the last station of the cross...
...biography of Gorbachev that puts him into the context of national malaise: clever enough to advance through the mediocrities of the party, honest enough to recognize the need for change. He believes Gorbachev has already achieved greatness by creating a civil society in a country where political passivity and dictatorship had always been the norm. Informal organizations at the grass roots and the emerging institutions of parliament, independent courts and a free press will eventually lead to a multiparty system. "I cannot imagine a new Stalinist dictatorship," Smith says. He can imagine, with equanimity, a Soviet Union that reorganizes itself...