Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Abroad and at home, challenges are going unmet. Under the shadow of a massive federal deficit that neither political party is willing to confront, a kind of neurosis of accepted limits has taken hold from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other. Whatever the situation -- the unprecedented opportunity to promote democracy in Eastern Europe, the spreading plague of drugs, the plight of the underclass, the urgent need for educational reform -- the typical response from Washington consists of encouraging words and token funds. Yet voters, especially the better-organized ones, continue to demand -- and often receive -- more benefits and services...
...impossible. A majority of the 1,274 delegates at a Communist Party congress voted to rechristen themselves the Hungarian Socialist Party. Hungarian Communism, for all practical purposes, was going out of business. Coming less than two months after the installation of Poland's first non- Communist government since the end of World War II, the Hungarian decision reinforced the historic shift taking place in Europe...
Last week the soap opera took another turn. In the midst of negotiations with the network over her future, Pauley disclosed to the Washington Post that she will probably leave Today by the end of the year. She will remain at NBC (her contract ties her to the network for two more years), though in exactly what capacity has yet to be determined...
...switch is the most complete undertaken by a Communist Party in Eastern Europe. Not even in Poland, where a Solidarity-led coalition has been governing for nearly two months, have Communists subjected themselves to so radical a purge of their political philosophy. In Hungary it marks the end of the party-state, the Marxist concept of a fused identity that still underpins governments in Beijing, Havana and Bucharest. The party will even examine ways of divesting itself of property acquired during the 40 years in which it and the state were virtually indistinguishable...
...bottle," complains Gyorgy Ruttner, an opposition leader who heads the Social Democratic Party. Aware that the bottle's contents might seem familiar and sour, the more radical reformers among the Communists wanted an even sharper break with the past, including expulsion of Old Guard hard-liners. In the end, moderates led by Rezso Nyers, 66, who was elected party president, stitched together a compromise that held the party together but may jeopardize its chances in the next elections...