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...filled with political prisoners. No sooner had Saddam assumed the presidency from ailing Ahmed Hassan al Bakr last year than he ordered scores of top government officials arrested on charges of plotting to overthrow his regime. He presided over the execution of 21 officials, including a popular Deputy Premier who had been a close friend. Two battered typewriters on which he and his revolutionary comrades once composed antigovernment propaganda are now on display in a Baghdad museum. At the same time, however, Iraqi citizens must have a license to own a typewriter, a measure aimed at curbing dissent. There...
...clock Mass at the Church of the Holy Cross, where three days earlier, regular radio broadcasts of the Roman Catholic Mass had resumed following a 41-year blackout. Later in the day, Walesa's delegation met with a group of Politburo members, including Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, the official who had negotiated the Gdansk agreement on behalf of the government. With characteristic bluntness, Walesa complained that the authorities, contrary to their promises, were denying the independent labor movement adequate opportunity to publicize its existence. Jagielski indicated that he would try to arrange freer access to the press and radio...
Last winter the then Premier, Edward Babiuch, imposed an austerity policy designed to limit Poland's foreign debt. Creditors were pleased but the population reacted with mounting resentment. It was thus not surprising that public anger should have broken out in July when the government reduced its heavy meat-price subsidies and allowed prices to rise sharply...
When the voters of French-speaking Quebec rejected Premier René Lévesque's attempt to lead their province out of Canada in last May's referendum, the relief was palpable throughout the country. Yet few Canadians were under any delusion that the verdict would mean a return to business as usual. With support of the premiers of the nine other provinces, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau made what he called "a most solemn commitment" in return for the non to separatism: "We will immediately take action to renew the constitution and will not stop until we have...
...given the chance. But there is also an astonishing lack of bitterness toward the regime, even among those who suffered terribly during the past two decades. Indeed there is an almost palpable desire among the Chinese to restore the greatness of their civilization. That kind of patriotism provides Premier Zhao, who also suffered during the Cultural Revolution, with a powerful asset as he sets himself to the chore of making China's "Four Modernizations" work...