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...Jaruzelski, fearing a Soviet invasion, declared martial law in 1981, the Pope mystified the West by disagreeing with U.S. sanctions. But his forbearance allowed him to attain a position of near partnership with the communist regime. Poland rolled back martial law in 1983 and--with the acquiescence of Mikhail Gorbachev--communism itself in April 1989. The largely peaceful transition seems to have influenced Gorbachev's approach to the other seceding East bloc nations and forever linked John Paul's name with communism's demise. Wrote the former Soviet leader in 1992: "Everything that happened in Eastern Europe in these last...
...renunciation of coercive force the political center of his pontificate. His stout opposition to Soviet communism was built around nonviolence, and his dramatic support of the Polish resistance movement was key to its firm commitment to nonviolence too. Because the democratic opposition behind the Iron Curtain remained peaceful, Mikhail Gorbachev, in the climactic months of 1989, was able to respond to it peacefully. John Paul II is often credited with a crucial role in the fall of communism, but his role, against the expectations of all "realists," was defined by its nonviolence. War never again...
...weeks ago? What about the continued power and influence of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld? No doubt, Bush's speech will stand as the template for this Administration's future rhetoric, but sometimes politicians use high-minded oratory as tactical camouflage. In the Reagan White House, tough talk-"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"-set the predicate for real diplomatic progress. This President is not one to announce a change of course, since that would imply a defective previous course. A moderate turn, if one is coming, will be inferred from straws in the wind. As for Cheney and Rumsfeld...
...understands that Ukraine chooses its presidents and appoints its prime ministers itself," Tymoshenko told Time. "I'm sure I'll handle the job well." She's certainly got all the right qualifications. Charismatic, competent and driven, Tymoshenko, 44, trained as an economist and launched one of the first Gorbachev-era cooperatives - a chain of videotape-rental shops - in the late 1980s. In 1995 she founded United Energy Systems of Ukraine, which managed Russian natural-gas supplies to energy-starved Ukraine under then-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko. Her ties to Lazarenko, who was arrested in 1999 and convicted last year...
...That would indeed appear to be the case. In an important speech in September to 194 members of the Central Committee that was never made public, Hu set out his stall. According to someone who read a copy, Hu said China would never have its own Gorbachev, referring to the Soviet Union leader whose commitment to openness and reform in the 1980s hastened the end of Communist Party rule there. In the speech, according to the source, Hu railed against people who "fly the banner of democracy and political reform" and said the Party must be "pre-emptive" and "strike...