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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turning into musical neanderthals. C.D. players are kind of like car phones or answering machines with remote call-in--sure they're an improvement, an advance, a fine addition to any upwardly mobile life. But they're heartless. They force us to evolve into slicker life forms than we human beings were ever meant...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Longing For L.P.'s | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

East Germany's largest opposition group yesterday sent a message of support to human rights activists in Czechoslovakia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New E. German Leader Meets With Gorbachev | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...convinced that new times will come to you, too, and that the Prague Spring will finally have its Summer," New Forum said in a letter sent to Czechoslovak human rights activists. The letter was made public in West Berlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New E. German Leader Meets With Gorbachev | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

ISRAEL is a very emotional issue for many Jews, including myself. It isn't easy to hear Israel associated with South Africa. I hate to hear of Israeli soldiers abusing commonly held standards of human rights. And I know that I would feel uncomfortable at Apartheid...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Talking Israel and South Africa | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

When playwright Vaclav Havel arrived at a restaurant for a meeting of the Helsinki Human Rights Monitoring Committee last week, other members shouted at him to flee. Havel, who was released from prison in May after a conviction for inciting antistate activities, obeyed the warning and thus avoided becoming the 16th committee member arrested by security police for unspecified reasons. In a continuing crackdown underscoring its resistance to reform, the government of Milos Jakes last week also briefly arrested five human rights activists meeting in a private apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA Anniversary Blues | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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