Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Honecker and his colleagues are well aware that theirs is a rump state, legitimized only by the practice of what they call socialism. Hungary and Poland could dilute their socialism and still remain ethnic and national entities. But such experiments in East Germany, its leaders fear, would simply hasten the swallowing of their state by the larger Federal Republic next door. In the well-noted words of senior Communist Party ideologist Otto Reinhold, "What reason would a capitalist G.D.R. have for existing next to a capitalist Federal Republic? None, naturally...
Colleges looking for more information on their student body can pay SAS to analyze the backgrounds of admitted students, said Smythe. The firm can give universities detailed information on students in many different categories, including geographic and ethnic backgrounds, she said...
...moves demonstrated Gorbachev's firm control at the pinnacle of Soviet power at a time when economic failures and ethnic violence prompted some Soviets to fret openly about the possibility of a coup or civil war. Gorbachev is both the nation's president and the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party...
This past summer is likely to go down in history as the time when racial tensions--or, at least, the perception of racial tensions--reached its peak and threatened to divide a city already split among many economic, social and ethnic groups...
Instead, Moses chose to speak out for the rights of minority students. He defended the existence of minority student organizations, and urged mutual acceptance of ethnic identity, saying "Tolerance is too passive...