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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PROFESSORS of Soviet and Eastern European Studies used to live the easy life. Day after day, they sat in their cushy university offices and waited for communist leaders to speak to the press...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Eastern European Quiz | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

...longer. Now, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev announces major policy initiatives to the press on a daily, rather than a quintannual, basis. Eastern European nations are stumbling over each other to declare their independence--witness the recent resignation of the entire East German Politburo. At this torrid pace, the Communist Bloc will soon generate more headlines than the Jane Pauley-Today Show feud...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Eastern European Quiz | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

Although several systems of voting--including those used in most European countries--are a form of PR, the variant that American cities have historically used is the one Cambridge employs--the single transferable ballot...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Beyond the Mainstream: Cambridge's | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...People think about quotas or the European listsystem and they say, 'Wait a minute. When I wentto school, we read that that's what allowed Hitlerto come to power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: System of Proportional Representation | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

Hungary and Poland, which are eager to wed their fortunes to the prosperous economies of the West, have begun to explore bilateral trade arrangements. Budapest, in particular, nurtures hopes of eventually joining the European Community. That remains years away, but a halfway step might be membership in the European Free Trade Association, which has special tariff agreements with the European Community. Such moves would come at the expense of traditional Comecon commitments. Given the glue that binds Eastern Europe -- including everything from heavily subsidized Soviet energy supplies and raw materials to inefficient plants unable to compete in world markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Goes the Bloc | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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