Word: local
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guard with a certain popularity, if not exactly a following. During ( the Honecker years, he had openly criticized the deterioration of East Germany's economy and kept up the attacks even after party bosses tried to intimidate him by sending 140 "investigators" to Dresden, where he was local party chief, to look into his "ideological errors." Modrow is now considered the only man who may be able to lead a rejuvenated and reformed party to a respectable performance at the polls...
Discontent boiled over last summer when local election returns gave an improbable 98.85% of the vote to the Communist Party. That anger found an outlet at the Nikolai Church, downtown, where a small band of peace activists had been meeting. Almost overnight their number grew into a mass movement for political freedom. "We didn't start this," says Pastor Christian Fuhrer, "but we protected it. We were the catalysts...
...recently as a month ago, residents spoke only furtively with foreigners, while a pervasive net of state control silenced dissent and enforced Marxist indoctrination of schoolchildren. Last week the opposition New Forum was sifting through official invitations to speak at local factories, while at a "Democracy Kiosk" outside the philharmonic hall, crowds gathered to scribble down addresses and meeting dates for everything from feminist films to university talks on "the collapse of Communism." The Academixer cabaret theater, famed for its political satire, revamps its sell-out show Who's to Blame? every night to keep up with developments. Quips artistic...
...Klerk also called for chucking the Separate Amenities Act, a pillar of apartheid since 1953 that has given local authorities the power to keep blacks out of selected parks, libraries, swimming pools and other public facilities. He is given a strong chance of winning repeal of the law when Parliament reconvenes next Feb. 2. De Klerk's moves were in keeping with his gradualist approach to reducing racial discrimination. He made no mention of changing laws that maintain segregation in most schools and housing...
...want to get the government mad at you -- even a local government. I once wrote an article critical of New York City's tax department. Two months later, I was summoned to a three-year audit. At the time the city was auditing only about one New Yorker a day -- out of 8 million -- but it was probably just coincidence they chose...