Word: oppositionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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At a meeting of the COHL in early April there was student and faculty opposition to the proposal to ban smoking.
Walesa's life, like those of Gorbachev and the Pope, was shaped by communism. Born to a family of peasant farmers in 1943, he came as a young man to work in the vast shipyards that the communist state was developing on the Baltic coast, as did so many other...
Exasperated, the government mounted a massive treason trial against its main opponents, Mandela among them. It dragged on for five years, until 1961, ending in the acquittal of all 156 accused. But by that time the country had been convulsed by the massacre of peaceful black demonstrators at Sharpeville in...
Since then, Abdul Koddus has been on the knife-edge of Egyptian politics. Writing in Al Shaab, Cairo's main opposition newspaper, he campaigns for democratic elections and release of political prisoners, not knowing whether government tolerance will give way to another jail term for him.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a high roller, and when you're upping the ante, it helps to look the part -- which might be why the Israeli prime minister's office has been spending $3,100 a month on cigars. After a media outcry, Netanyahu today promised to curb his habit of...