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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years of retreat in the face of Deng's reforms. The doctrinaire faction -- also known as conservatives and, even more confusingly, leftists -- blamed the reformers for last December's huge pro-democracy student demonstrations and launched a major campaign against "bourgeois liberalization." They vigorously attacked many of Deng's post-Mao changes, including greater artistic and press freedom and most moves toward capitalist-style economic reforms...
When Cory Aquino came to power last February, one of her key promises was to implement a genuine agrarian reform policy. Now, with less than a month to go before the members of the country's first post-revolutionary Congress takes their seats, the question is: will...
Pihl will be taking an administrative post atMcLean Hospital, a Harvard-affiliated teachinghospital staffed by the psychiatric department ofthe Medical School. He will create a program toeducate the community about mental health issues...
Thornburgh got his start in politics in 1969when he was appointed U.S. attorney for westernPennsylvania. The young Thornburgh quickly won aname for himself as he aggressively attackedorganized crime, corruption, drug trafficking andpornography. As a result of his strong anti-crimestance, in 1975 he was appointed by President Fordto the post of Assistant Attorney General of theU.S., in charge of the Justice Department'sCriminal Division...
Ending his tour as Assistant U.S. AttorneyGeneral in 1977, the Yale graduate decided to trya run as his party's candidate for governor ofPennsylvania. Facing a strong Democratic opponentwho held an early 30-point lead in aoverwhelmingly Democratic state, Thornburgh wageda tough campaign to win the post he would hold forthe next eight years...