Word: endedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Rumania, Solidarity's accession is likely to convince the Old Guard Communist regimes that any concessions to reform could lead to similar disaster for the ruling party. In Prague authorities were girding for the 21st anniversary this week of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion that...
The despondency has grown out of 27 years of one-man misrule. Under the authoritarian leadership of General Ne Win and his military cohorts, the country has been beggared and its people forced into silence. Last week, the first anniversary of explosive antigovernment riots, Burmese were suffering through a renewed...
She is an improbable liberator for backward Burma, though perhaps born to the task. Her father was the national hero General Aung San, who led the struggle for independence from Britain only to be assassinated by a rival in July 1947, a mere six months before colonial rule ended. Until...
But the experts part company with Siegel on the idea of building better . drugs. "There is a real danger," says Weil, "in thinking there is a perfect drug that won't interfere with psychological and spiritual growth -- and without the potential for dependence and damage." Reaction from drug czar William...
THIS week has seen an orgy of Woodstock nostalgia. The three-day-long music festival that ended 20 years ago today was the last major event of the 1960s, and it supposedly defined a generation.