Word: gorbachevized
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...former high school dropout and University of Miami graduate comes to New York with firsthand knowledge of the city's racial and ethnic divisions. In Miami, he is credited with having transformed public instruction, a feat he hopes to duplicate in his new post. "We're losing the Gorbachev of American education," laments Andy Gollan, a spokesman for the Dade County school board. The question is whether the New York system, with its 27.3% dropout rate and entrenched tradition of cronyism, is ready for educational perestroika...
...army not crushed the pro-democracy movement -- and what might still come to pass. Communist Party officials in Beijing put out a directive telling their cadres how to interpret the revolution that swept across Eastern Europe last year, the result of the subversion of socialism by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. In the Arab world several newspapers pointedly reminded oppressive regimes that tyranny could not be maintained forever and that strongmen in the region should take heed...
...that was popular, but not enough to win universal support for the narrowly based provisional government. Rumanians are troubled by some of the men who assumed control. Several of the leading figures are communists -- dissident and reformist communists of the Gorbachev variety, to be sure, but still tainted by membership at one point or another in Ceausescu's machine. The President, Ion Iliescu, 59, is a former Central Committee Secretary who was demoted in the early 1970s after complaining to Ceausescu about nepotism in the party. Vice President Dumitru Mazilu is also a lifelong communist whose career ground...
Most Rumanians associate communism with tyranny and deprivation, and are not likely to trust even its reformers for long. Like Gorbachev, some of the postrevolution leaders hope to rebuild the Communist Party, not abolish it. Others are uncertain. Newly appointed Prime Minister Petre Roman, for example, admitted last week that the party might not have a future. "I don't know if it will survive," he said. Vice President Mazilu went further. "Rumania is no longer a communist country," he said. "Rumania is a free land, and we will create a real democracy...
Theory two: Appeasing the Conservatives. This is the "right wing conservatives are so stupid, they don't know anything" tack. Believing that conservatives are angry with Bush for his soft Gorbachev-loving persona, the administration sent Quayle out to appease the critics. Meanwhile, back in Malta, Bush was telling Gorbachev that Quayle had no influence in foreign policy matters...