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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like a video tape on fast forward, Prague was racing through a revolution so quickly that even the participants could barely keep track of developments. The opposition never stopped to bask in celebration. Since its inception three weeks ago, the Civic Forum has emerged as the most single-minded and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: What Have You Done for Us Lately? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Havel and company had been emboldened by the response to their call for a two-hour strike last Monday. At the stroke of noon, millions of workers and students took to the streets, shutting down hundreds of enterprises, from huge steelworks to the local Fiat service agency. Not only was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: What Have You Done for Us Lately? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

The brisk rate of change has already created stress fractures between the students, who have their own strike committee, and the Civic Forum, whose leaders are drawn largely from Charter 77, an umbrella opposition group set up in 1977 to defend human and civil rights in Czechoslovakia. The students, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: What Have You Done for Us Lately? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

A tube to Cruzan's stomach provides all the food and water that keep her on this side of existence. The cost of her care, $130,000 annually, is borne by the state (since she is not a minor, her parents are not held responsible for her debts). Doctors say...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Whose Right to Die? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Works fine, he reported. Not only do muggers edge away nervously, but Keillor thinks up a lot of good material as he mumbles. Thus the new show: recycled mugger-repellent. What kind of new show? Some comedy, centered more in the present than the nostalgic P.H.C. was, he said a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wild Seed in the Big Apple: Garrison Keillor | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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