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...name of democracy last month had two objectives: to force the resignation of an unelected army officer as Prime Minister and, more broadly, to end the military's dominance of politics. After great bloodshed, the demonstrators won on the first score when Suchinda Kraprayoon stepped down from the premiership. The official count of those killed when troops opened fire on protesters stands at 53 but an Interior Ministry spokesman said last week that more than 500 people are still unaccounted...
...power. While the ousted British Prime Minister seemed her old intrepid self on a visit to Washington two weeks ago, a number of close friends say she has decided to give up her seat in Parliament after holding it for 31 years. In the weeks after she lost the premiership, Thatcher took comfort in the fact that protege John Major succeeded her, and she hoped to exercise wide influence over post-gulf war policy. Major has largely backed away from Thatcherism, however, and has done nothing more than pay tribute to Thatcher "res-oluteness and staunchness" in committing Britain...
...Soviets agreed to turn over the premiership to Nagy, a walrus- mustachioed intellectual; the hated Gero was replaced by Janos Kadar. Nagy tried to slow the revolution, but the street crowds kept applying pressure. He agreed to take noncommunists into his government. Going further, he formally asked the Soviets to leave, announced Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and asked the U.N. to guarantee his country's neutrality. On Oct. 29, it was announced that the Soviets had begun withdrawing from Budapest...
...Thatcher had a political son, he would be John Major, 47, who has been on the fast track ever since she made him Foreign Secretary in July 1989 and, the following October, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Though he has had relatively little Cabinet experience, Major is gunning for the premiership with the apparent blessing of his mentor...
Three major reforms would break the deadlock by strengthening the premiership, reducing the number of smaller parties and increasing the accountability of politicians...