Word: leader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refused," said Cyril Ramaphosa, a union leader and one of the main organizers. "The ANC lives. It is amongst...
...Azerbaijan native is already a saavy and outspoken critic of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and he sits on the Azerbaijan Central Committee...
...conductor, and now leads the London Symphony Orchestra. Perhaps in recognition of the pitfalls of premature success, Soviet emigre Semyon Bychkov, 37, started out in Grand Rapids and then went to Buffalo before taking charge this year of the Orchestre de Paris. Similarly, Britain's Simon Rattle, 34, a leader of great promise, has obdurately remained with his City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in England, taking his career at his own pace...
Those jeers apparently never reached East Berlin. Last week party elders demonstrated just how out of touch they are with the masses by awarding Krenz the country's top political trophy. Erich Honecker, for 18 years the country's unsmiling, unbudging leader, was relieved of his posts as head of state, Communist Party chief and chairman of the National Defense Council. Krenz, his protege, was elevated to all three positions. Technically, the 77-year-old Honecker resigned, citing the poor health that has plagued him since he underwent gallbladder surgery last August. But few East Germans doubted that Honecker...
...chess master blamed much of the Soviet Union's problems on Gorbachev. Kasparov, a former backer, said he became disillusioned with the Soviet leader in February when it became clear to him "that Gorbachev only wants perestroika of the system, but the Soviet people want perestroika of the society...