Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realize such sweeping changes, the Communist Party must secure the cooperation not only of Solidarity but of its own allies as well. However, as last week's threatened defection by the Peasants demonstrated, there is growing impatience with the compromise implicit in the round-table agreement. Observed the Solidarity daily Gazeta Wyborcza in an editorial: "Society does not understand why the new Cabinet, which would like to call itself a government of national salvation, should be headed by a representative of a party responsible for creating the situation from which society must be saved...
Finally, the case for Irwin Shaw must rest on the short stories, in which the force of simple observation, uncomplicated inspiration, modest but authentic craftsmanship are sufficient to sustain both writer and reader. A life devoted to such work might not have inspired a biography as lively as this one. But it might have provided the truly exemplary qualities Shnayerson strains so hard to find...
...team members, twelve of whom are laboring in Jerusalem, point out that their task is difficult and must be done with precision. For example, one of the caves contained 15,000 fragments that had to be pieced together like jigsaw puzzles into 516 scrolls. Harvard University's John Strugnell, head of the group since 1987, says fund-raising difficulties and the Arab-Israeli wars slowed progress. He admits that his deadline of 1997 is only an "intelligent guess," not a "promise," and that work could stretch years beyond that...
...that would create something akin to social democracy. Perhaps most daring, it proposes eliminating Article VI of the Constitution, which entrenches the Communist Party as the "leading and guiding force" in all aspects of the society. Dumping this provision would effectively reverse Lenin's totalitarian doctrine that the party must control the state...
...President Mikhail Gorbachev, said historian Yuri Afanasyev, an elected official of the group, "is justifiably regarded as the man who launched reform. But the time has passed when he can successfully remain the leader of perestroika and the leader of the nomenklatura," the topmost ranks of the party. "He must make a choice." Gorbachev responded at a Supreme Soviet session last week, referring to "provocative appeals" from some of the group's members and criticizing their description of themselves as "left radicals." He was uncertain "what good this will bring to our cause...