Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...updating the Atlantic alliance and the difficulty of drafting plans in the face of swiftly moving events. Continuing its plunge into reform, the Bulgarian Communist Party last week expelled Todor Zhivkov, its leader for 35 years, and announced that free elections would be held in May. When the parliament postponed until January a vote on ending the Communist Party's monopoly of power, 50,000 jeering protesters encircled the parliament building. As Josef Joffe, foreign editor of the Suddeutsche Zeitung, observed, "If only there weren't all these people in the streets . . . who will yet foul up many...
Gorbachev too is likely to regret that Sakharov's prophetic voice has been silenced. Despite their differences, the two men had managed to carry on something resembling a dialogue amid all the clamor at the Congress. Seven months have passed since the new parliament held its first meeting, more than half a year in which political change has outpaced progress in solving economic problems and ethnic tensions. At times last week, Moscow's maestro tried to orchestrate the debate, cutting off talk with a curt "That's all." Still, plenty of sour notes were struck. The Armenian delegation stormed...
...Gallup poll indicated that 3 of every 4 Americans consider themselves environmentalists. The level of public concern is so high, says Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island, that pro-environmental bills now get "a tidal wave" of support in Congress. In elections to the European Parliament, Green parties scored impressive gains. In Hungary protests from local environmentalists led the government to cancel a $ controversial multibillion-dollar hydroelectric-dam project. And in the Soviet Union the budding Green movement showed its muscle by shutting down a new chemical-weapons dismantling facility in the Siberian town of Chapayevsk. "In the future...
...favor of a constitutional amendment legalizing rivals to the Communist Party. While Lithuania thus became the first Soviet republic to do so, in neighboring Estonia the Communist Party Central Committee approved a similar proposal that should easily pass the legislature next month. In Armenia angry crowds surrounded parliament after legislators rejected a multiparty system. This week Andrei Sakharov and other members of the Congress of People's Deputies are calling for a two-hour strike to force the Congress to debate the repeal or modification of Article 6 of the constitution, which enshrines the Communist Party's dominance...
...activism continued almost until his death. On Tuesday, he engaged in an angry exchange with Gorbachev in the Parliament over the party's monopoly on political power...