Word: ex-communist
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...reign to a regime just because it joins the alliance. In recent years, Uighurs, Kurds, Tibetans and Chechens have all resorted to bombs to protest oppression. The bombs may be wrong, but their struggles for self-determination, once much applauded in the West, may be legitimate. Likewise, should the ex-communist thugs who rule over Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan be given carte blanche to deal with opponents as though they were all card-carrying bin Ladenists? And how is the U.S. now to reward China for its support, however tentative? These are?or should be?real dilemmas...
...POLAND Ex-Communist Leader Faces Court More than 30 years after striking workers were gunned down in Baltic Sea shipyards, the man accused of ordering troops to open fire, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, appeared in court. He was charged, along with nine others, with responsibility for the deaths of 44 workers. After Jaruzelski's lawyers quit on Thursday the trial was postponed until June 19 for new lawyers to take on the defense...
...endorsed Berlusconi, and no government smacked more firmly than hers.) It would be nice to reply that economic prosperity depends on the trappings of constitutional liberalism. And there are examples where that seems to be true. Since 1989, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, the three core economies of ex-communist central Europe, have seen economic prosperity and political freedom march together. Indeed, democracy came to central Europe before economic reform did. But that isn't always the case. Consider Mexico. For 15 years, from 1985 to 2000, its protectionist, corrupt economy was progressively opened and cleaned up by governments...
...case, Harvard told an ex-Communist that he could not have a job promised to him if he did not inform on the party...
...lived anywhere south of Brooklyn since. A few years ago I did spend July in Atlanta, where I found to my ethnic chagrin that at temperatures over 90[degrees] I could no longer digest hush puppies. You might accuse me of having some kind of compensatory agenda, like an ex-communist swung drastically to the right...