Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind the unified air of the People's Party Congress and the monotonous calls for economic growth, there lurks political dissent. What analysts once called a move toward democracy in China, highlighted by the campaigns on Peking's Democracy Wall, has halted. But banning wall posters and installing lieutenants in the bureaucratic grooves does not insure stability. By saying they could 'not care less" about ideology, party leaders have taken a strong ideological position. No matter how hard Deng tries to prepare China for his passing, no matter how hard he chips away at the myth...
...than last (4.3%). Economic planning has loosened a bit, helping to compensate for capital deficiencies, limited natural resources and a small labor force. Slavish in its devotion to Soviet aims, East Germany billets some 285,000 Soviet troops. The archconservative regime of Party Chief Erich Honecker tolerates little dissent, though a few minor work stoppages have been reported this year. East Germans are rarely allowed to travel westward and defect at a rate of 200 every year...
Even some of those who went to Moscow found ways to register visible dissent that not even the Soviets could censor. Traditionally, each winner has his nation's flag hoisted and its national anthem rendered when he receives his medal. Luciano Giovannetti of Italy, who won the gold medal in trapshooting, was the first champion to have the Olympic flag and hymn used at his ceremony (Italy and a number of other Western European countries chose to participate in Moscow but to protest by using Olympic symbols instead of their own). Tears rose in his eyes afterward when...
Begin's reply was aimed at the growing number of U.S. Jews who have abandoned their traditional stance of public solidarity with Israel and have openly expressed dissent. The Prime Minister singled out Fein because Begin believed Fein had "organized" the 56 American Jewish leaders who put their names to a statement that was released early this month. (In May, the same document had been signed by 250 prominent Israelis...
...With dissent stifled on the floor Reagan cound afford to spend the second day of the convention soothing hurt feelings. He met in the morning with 17 women, including his daughter Maureen, 39, who describes herself as a feminist. He promised to seek out women for high appointive office and work to repeal state and federal laws that discriminate against women. Said former G.O.P. National Chairman Mary Louise Smith, an ERA supporter: "We came away feeling good...