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Student demonstrators, who triggered the revolution, said no -- and emphatically so. They poured into Palace Square only hours after the caretaker government was announced. In the shadow of the burned-out, bullet-pocked presidential palace and Communist Party Central Committee building, they marched over the refuse of the struggle, crunching...
Consensus may be difficult to attain after the polarized election campaign. ; The runoff contest narrowed the 21-candidate field to Collor and a gritty dark-horse opponent, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, a union leader and former industrial lathe operator who heads the leftist Workers' Party. Lula pounded away at...
The wealthy Collor, 40, gained national attention by attacking his state's bureaucratic "maharajas." The radical socialist Lula, 44, left school after the eighth grade, became a lathe operator and entered union politics. The old- style populist Brizola, 67, was once governor of Rio de Janeiro state.
Lunch at the Michurinsk factory proved to be one of those seemingly commonplace occurrences that actually signifies a great deal about perestroika. We did not eat in a separate executive dining room, or in a side room at a nearby restaurant reserved for the special few, but in a lunch...
Getting into the future once proved just as difficult. The science-fiction field, formerly a gentlemen's club run by the likes of Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert and Arthur C. Clarke, now has a woman at the top of the charts. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le...