Word: news
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Civic Forum spokesman Jiri Kanturek appeared on state TV's evening news with a 10-point statement outlining concessions made and further opposition demands...
...news conference, prominent dissident Jiri Dienstbier read a letter saying Husak's resignation "would calm the situation down...
...minute appearance was the first time Civic Forum was allowed to make its points on a national TV news program...
...official CTK news agency said Parliament, until now a rubber-stamp body under firm Communist control, also would be open to discussion of any draft laws. Vladimir Janku, head of the state's commission on church affairs, was quoted as saying these changes would include new laws on religion that would end state control over churches and the criticized practice of licensing priests...
...news from the Soviet Union is breathtaking. Events which no one would have predicted 10 years ago are now occuring at lightning speed...