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Dates: during 1980-1989
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-- Poland will not only hold free elections for the upper house of parliament this month but, in a little noted provision of its pact with Solidarity, will also have a popular election for President in six years.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Reflections on The Revolution in China | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

Washington unsheathed the newest weapon in its trade arsenal: a law requiring the U.S. Trade Representative to single out countries that systematically restrict American access to their markets. Encouraged by frustrated U.S. trade groups and corporations, legislators had Japan in mind when they passed the provision -- dubbed Super 301 -- as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Japan Play Fair? Getting Tough With Tokyo | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

Apartheid is alive and more than a little absurd in the South African town of Boksburg (pop. 106,000). Ever since rightists took over the town's city council last year, they have been strictly enforcing the whites-only laws that had fallen into disuse. They began by barring blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Food for Thought | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Proposition 1-2-3, a binding referendum put on the ballot by a coalition of realtors and homeowners, has drawn strong opposition from CCA members. The measure's chief provision would allow tenants in rent-controlled apartments to buy their units as condominiums after living there for two years. Such...

Author: By Steve Hopchick, | Title: Civic Group Backs Candidates | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

Another possible approach would be to disallow abortions beyond an earlier point in pregnancy, based on the assumption that medical advances permit the fetus to survive outside the womb at an earlier point. A provision of the Missouri law at issue in the Webster case requires doctors to perform tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Life Is It? (Roe v. Wade) | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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