Word: exits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Furthermore those in our group who knew other Soviet citizens--primarily refusniks, Jews who have been refused exit visas, and nonconformists--saw another side of Soviet life and heard a different view of Gorbachev's reforms. Where the students were optimistic, many others saw a dismal future. One woman whose husband spent 15 years in a Siberian labor camp described the Soviet premier as "a man in search of power." And a long-time refusnik said, "Russia just isn't made for democracy. History proves it." When asked what she thought about the current situation, one woman abruptly answered...
...taking a clear majority of the popular vote (57%), Bush, according to the ABC News exit poll, carried all age and income groups. But despite that tide, surveys indicated potential weaknesses. Among voters who based their decision on the candidate who can best "get things done," Dole got a plurality. Those who listed their main concern as reducing the federal deficit went for Dole by a 2-to-1 majority. TIME's survey showed that among Democrats Dole continues to enjoy a much higher "favorability" rating than Bush does. Dole is viewed favorably by 48% of registered Democrats and unfavorably...
...East Germany, authorities continued a campaign of harassment aimed at would-be emigrants, many of whom have sought assistance from Protestant church groups in their efforts to obtain exit visas. At least 100 such individuals have been arrested, according to church officials. Last Sunday police surrounded East Berlin's Sophienkirche, one of the city's largest churches, subjecting worshipers to intimidating identity checks. The new crackdown follows a drive in January in which some dissidents were "exiled" to West Germany as punishment. Officials have evidently decided that the sweet prospect of such punishment merely encouraged the estimated 50,000 would...
...audience can see her exit as he cannot, and there is something distinctly odd, bad-dreamy about her movement out of frame and, as it happens, out of the normality that Polanski so nicely states in his film's early passages. There is something very human about her husband's -- everybody's -- refusal to admit at first that something unusual must have happened. How desperately we cling to the belief that orderliness is immutable...
Perhaps the only worthy New Idea that Gary Hart contributed this time around was the quaint notion, Let the people decide. In his case they did, decisively. The people of New Hampshire and Iowa also rendered verdicts on Babbitt, whose graceful exit showed him to be a class act to the very end; Pete du Pont, who was never all that convincing as a right-winger; and Alexander Haig, who was never all that convincing as someone who should be in charge...