Word: disobeyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...succeeded Erich Honecker reveals to TIME that he told officials to disobey any order to shoot demonstrators in Leipzig. He invites "all political forces" to shape a consensus that will serve his country's majority. But he insists that present borders must be respected and takes a dim view of German reunification...
...from ambitious and pragmatic Prime Minister Karoly Grosz, 57. Installed as Prime Minister last June, Grosz, along with most Hungarians, has lately grown impatient with Kadar's determination to hang on to power. In April the Prime Minister told the daily Magyar Hirlap that politicians should not try to disobey "biological laws," an all but direct slap at the leader who has come to be known unflatteringly in Hungary as "Old Uncle Janos...
Similarly, the text does not dispute the papal teaching on birth control but encourages discussion and "compassion towards those who in good conscience" disobey such teaching. Without challenging doctrine, the bishops urge that a greater effort be made to reach out to divorced women who have become isolated from the church and suggest that married women be given a "forum" in which to discuss and clarify traditional sexual teachings...
Tatiana Zomopoulos '90 says she thinks the rules are made simply for safety, so she can disobey them. "I've never hit anybody or anything, so I just do it," she says...
...obviously speaks for his author as well as for all the compulsive monologists who continue to pop up in and then dominate Singer's short stories. "Now listen," commands Aunt Yentl, who is overheard telling three different anecdotes, and only the dull or the terminally uninterested could possibly disobey...