Word: member
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...masks or guns. But now the House Banking Committee, the thousands of duped bondholders and the public have caught on: to the empty vault at California's Lincoln Savings and Loan, to the perfidy of its owner Charles Keating and to the complicity of the Government. Says Banking Committee member Jim Leach of Iowa: "Keating is at fault because he is a bank robber, but we in Washington made it, in part, a legal bank robbery...
...calls for more democracy. At an emergency session, delegates to the once ineffectual legislature proposed to remove the constitutional guarantee of a "leading role" for the party, a phrase as basic to Communist dogma as "We the People" is to the U.S. Constitution. On Friday Modrow presented a 28-member Cabinet that included eleven representatives of officially sanctioned minor parties that have begun to wean themselves from Communist domination. Modrow also announced the establishment of "the rule of law," "protection from the law," and "freedom from fear." As a step toward these reforms, the government ousted the head...
...Even in Moscow, party leaders were struggling to come to terms with the revolution being wrought in Eastern Europe. Official papers were both elated by the changes and wary that the democratic tide might wash away the postwar boundaries of Europe. Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev observed that the renewal in Poland, Hungary and East Germany "poses a threat to none, except, maybe, those countries that have yet to go through the process of democratization." Moscow was preparing to ease rules for travel and gave no sign that the tidal wave in Eastern Europe has reached the limit of its tolerance...
...designed to promote discussion and peak interest in the real issues," said Debbie M. Gurner '91, a COCA member. "I did not expect people to believe it, at least not for very long...
...Jason I. Shure '90, also a COCA member, said he was disappointed in the campus reaction...