Word: onely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hundreds of meetings across the country, including Communist Party gatherings, people poured out their disgust, demanding that their former leaders be investigated and, if necessary, tried and punished. Inevitably, perhaps, the time for retribution had come. During one of the almost nightly mass rallies in Leipzig, the mood was summed up by a young speaker who condemned the regime, shouting "You treated us like a herd of cattle...
Similarly, at a meeting of the opposition group New Forum in Potsdam's Erloser Church, an overflow crowd of 5,000 booed, whistled and stamped their feet when party theoretician Otto Reinhold, until recently one of the East German guardians of Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, proclaimed his conversion to reform by saying that the constitutionally enshrined leading role of the Socialist Unity Party (S.E.D.) was a thing of the past. From the audience a voice shouted, "Wendehals!" (turncoat), unleashing an uproar in the audience...
...citizens who at last could use them, even at absurdly low rates, to buy something -- in the West. Fretted Prime Minister Modrow: "East Germany must not become a nation of speculators." The government's bewilderment underlined the problems encountered by a Communist leadership, albeit a reform-minded one, in coming face to face with the complexities of capitalism. Within a matter of days, the East German currency -- officially at parity with the deutsche mark -- fell to one-twentieth of its denominated value. One result is that foreigners as well as East Germans with access to hard currencies...
...case Sullivan did not understand that inviting the Hatch nominees into the department was a condition of the Senator's support, Hatch also relayed his list to Sununu, who could be counted on to recognize a quid pro quo when he saw one. "The Administration promised to put antiabortion people all around Sullivan," complains Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. "They made sure he wouldn't exercise independent judgment." Hatch brushes off all of the protests. "Bush has said he stands for certain principles," the Senator says. "So why should he appoint...
...White House also remains committed to overturning Roe v. Wade. The Justice Department is urging the Supreme Court to do that in two important cases it will hear this week. Both concern state laws requiring that one or both parents be notified before a teenager can get an abortion. By calling for Roe to be reversed, the Justice Department has gone beyond the position taken by the states involved, Ohio and Minnesota. They argue that their laws could be upheld within the interpretation of Roe that the court adopted in July, when it gave states greater power to restrict abortion...