Word: greate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even Soviet journalists proved to be diplomats at heart. Despite persistent questions about Gorbachev's reaction to the protests, a Soviet correspondent evaded the topic and kept insisting that the real story was the renewed friendship between two great countries. In private, however, Gorbachev could not control his curiosity. Late Monday evening he summoned Soviet journalists to his country's embassy and peppered them with questions about what was happening in the streets...
...despite the reassurances, the political summit may prove to be anything but "no problem." What really deserved welcome was less the talks inside the Great Hall of the People than the protests outside, in Tiananmen Square. Crackdown or not, the protests were the "healthy development...
Cities like Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Mexico City are slouching toward the new world in the darkest way. Life and death struggle with one another: great birth rates, great death rates. This is the new world's suffocation, of population, poverty, pollution. The country people crowd into the cities. Their continuities are broken, their communities, their village frameworks wrecked, with nothing to replace them...
...Other people gave up," Ford says of his hard-won acting eminence. "I don't give up. That's all." A good man to make a movie with, if you're Lucas and Spielberg and Connery. A great quartet of storytellers to watch riding off into the everlasting sunset at the end of Indiana Jones' last and best crusade...
...Great white liberals have always been a rare species in South Africa. Their ranks, diminished by the death of author Alan Paton at 85 a year ago, are about to be thinned again. After 36 years of combat against the forces of apartheid in Parliament, Helen Suzman, 71, announced last week that she will not seek re-election in September...