Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lauristin may seem an unlikely revolutionary, but she is as much a rebel in her own way as was her father Johannes, a prominent Estonian Bolshevik. Her Popular Front has taken the organizational model of the party and turned it upside down. The movement promotes no rigid political platform, except a general commitment to democracy and pluralism, and welcomes everyone into its ranks. Its central steering committee is an umbrella organization for dozens of local chapters that open their doors to any citizens' groups with a worthy cause. In Tartu the Popular Front joined with the environmentalist Greens...
...warehouse-like hall that is usually the venue for hockey matches and basketball games. Off-duty soldiers, their pink faces fuzzy with adolescent stubble, scuffle to get closer to the stage, while packs of young girls giggle at their antics. It might be a concert anywhere in America -- except that no T shirts are for sale, no hot dog vendors trawl the aisles, and, most of all, no one smokes anything stronger than cigarettes...
...board for Central Asia, the most important of the four government-imposed bureaucracies for Soviet Islam, Deputy Chairman Abdulgani Abdulla recalls that "almost nobody was interested in religion" in the 1960s. Now, he reports, large numbers are becoming active believers, many of them young people. "None of the philosophies except the religious ones are able to satisfy men's needs," he maintains. The leader of the Muslim board for Transcaucasia, Allahshukur Pasha-zada, declares that until recently "freedom of conscience was on paper only." The pre-Gorbachev regimes, he says, "destroyed all the values of the people." Just...
...following night, when we started back to Tambov, our hosts accompanied us to the outskirts of Uvarovo, where our two-car convoy pulled over so we could say one last goodbye. All was darkness, except for the expanse of snow caught in the headlights. With lightning speed, plates of foods materialized on the closed trunk of one of the cars. A bottle of vodka appeared. The occasion seemed to demand a humorous toast...
While ignorance still reigns, little remains that is actually taboo except male homosexuality. Those accused of the practice face three years in prison for a first offense. The handful who test positive for the AIDS virus and then have sex can get eight years...