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Prime Minister Roman defended the swift execution, claiming that Ceausescu loyalists were about to attack the military base where the dictator was being held in an attempt to free him. "We were in a situation that did not allow us to wait," Roman said. "Perhaps it was a mistake. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rumania Unfinished Revolution | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

A sneak preview of the latest Tom Clancy effulgence? Hardly. This frightening scenario of Soviet collapse, titled Nevozraschenets (The Non- Returnee), was published last June in Iskusstvo Kino, the official journal of the Soviet movie industry. Its appearance reflects a mood of unprecedented pessimism and self-doubt, in which intellectuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What If the Soviet Union Collapses? | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

At one point, the government seemed intent on depicting a mood of impending breakdown, as if trying to ensure its survival by convincing people that only the present leaders could keep blood from flowing in the streets. In a statement issued through the state-run ADN news agency last Wednesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West Out of Control? | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight," Samuel Johnson once wrote, "it concentrates his mind wonderfully." The threat of impending ecological doom seems to be having the same effect on public opinion. If historians remember 1989 as the year the Iron Curtain collapsed, it has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endangered Earth Update the Fight to Save the Planet | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Sources have said the goal for the impending University-wide capital campaign will be at least $2 billion. Of that sum, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is asking for $1 to $1.5 billion.

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Financing Higher Education's Future | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

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