Word: generally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several ministers, including those of China, Australia and Japan, backed a recommendation by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar to dispatch a "reconnaissance mission" to Cambodia immediately to lay the groundwork for an "international control mechanism...
...could have been much worse. Only hours earlier Aung San's daughter Aung San Suu Kyi, 44, the general-secretary of the opposition National League for Democracy, had canceled a scheduled protest march out of fear that the ruling military junta would turn it into a massacre. Said Suu Kyi in a letter sent to political parties throughout the city: "Let the world know that under this administration the Burmese people are like prisoners in their own homes...
Last week M-19 agreed to put down its guns. Saying he was "ready for the big leap," rebel leader Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez, 37, signed an agreement with the government to demobilize in exchange for a general amnesty and the right to form a political party that could participate in elections scheduled for next December...
Party stewards counted the votes once, then tallied them three more times. When the result was finally announced to the 544 Deputies in the hushed Parliament last week, the reason for all the counting became clear. General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the leader of Poland's Communist Party, had won the country's presidency with just a single vote to spare...
...allies in line. Without a rival candidate, Jaruzelski required only a simple majority to be elected, a sure thing if all 299 Deputies belonging to the Communist coalition threw their weight behind him. The final count showed that eleven Communist alliance Deputies had broken ranks and that the general owed his election to maneuvering by a handful of Solidarity deputies...