Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talk about empty gestures. Along with representatives from 34 other countries, Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jaromir Johanes arrived in Vienna last week to attend the final session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. One main purpose of the meeting: to approve the most far-ranging document on human rights since the Helsinki accords in 1975. But Johanes' endorsement only underscored the hypocrisy of the Czech regime. That day, baton-wielding police used tear gas, water cannons and dogs against 4,000 ^ people who were about to begin a peaceful demonstration in Prague's Wenceslas Square. The rally...
...days later, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz sharply criticized Czechoslovakia for violating the terms of the conference "but one hour after the adoption of the concluding document." Chastened Czech authorities then allowed 1,500 people to hold a peaceful demonstration while state video cameras surreptitiously photographed participants. The following day, however, police armed with truncheons brutally dispersed a crowd of 2,000 marchers. As ambulances raced around the square picking up bleeding and bruised protesters, other people were pushed into waiting vans and buses. At least 40 were arrested and dozens more injured in the melee. "It was terrible...
...trade unions, expressed the fears of many in the government when he said legalizing opposition in any enterprises would be like "introducing a Trojan horse" into Polish factories. The committee eventually voted to invite Solidarity back into the fold, but not without a harness. According to the three-page document, the government is "in favor of lifting -- under conditions of a national agreement -- restrictions on establishing trade unions." Among the conditions that the unions (read Solidarity) must meet: renouncing all foreign financial support -- including U.S. aid -- and vowing to suppress any attempt by its members to hold public demonstrations...
...designed to spawn epidemics of deadly diseases such as typhoid, cholera and anthrax. So far, there appears to be no evidence that Iraq has deployed germ warfare, despite allegations last September by Kurdish rebels that an outbreak of typhoid was caused by an Iraqi attack. But a purported document captured by Kurdish guerrillas a year ago refers to an inventory of "chemical and biological" materials in the hands of the Iraqi army. Dated Aug. 3, 1986, the document was released by London-based officials of the Kurdish Democratic Party...
...taxes to cut the projected 1990 deficit of $127 billion to the $100 billion required by the Gramm-Rudman law. Instead, the Reagan budget proposes to accomplish that in part by eliminating 82 federal programs, all of which Congress has defended in past budgets. While Democrats dismissed the Reagan document as "irrelevant," since President-elect Bush plans to submit a revised version by Feb. 20, the incoming Administration is unlikely to embrace a tax increase until it becomes an unavoidable compromise. Along with his broad "read my lips" pledge during the fall campaign, Bush specifically ruled out a higher gasoline...