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...just as the centrist Aquino presidency was recovering from a series of political setbacks. The shooting of 18 demonstrators on January 22 by security forces drew extreme criticism from the left; five days later right-wing elements of the armed forces staged an abortive coup. Then, on January 30, rebel negotiators announced that they would no longer seek an extension of the two month cease-fire between Communist and government troops...
Yevgeni Yevtushenko, 53, has for three decades been the most famous poet in the Soviet Union, a country where poets often become national heroes. A young rebel in the late 1950s, he flourished during the cultural thaw of the Khrushchev years. After Brezhnev came to power in 1964, Yevtushenko adapted to more conservative times, becoming a supporter of the government and writing verse acceptable to the Kremlin. In this article written for TIME, he gives his views of the changes under Gorbachev...
Jackson, as Captain EO, crash lands his ship on a hostile planet, and it's a high-volume, high-speed, high-powered moment, though it borrows a lot from the Rebel Death Star raid in Star Wars...
Hamilton said his committee also "would like to hear from the leaders of the Contras [Nicaraguan rebel forces]" about assertions that profits from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran were diverted to the rebel forces...
...failing health, Djilas intends to visit his son Aleksa, the editor of a political journal in London. After being officially warned not to do anything abroad that might cause another arrest on his return home, the old rebel declared, "My views are well known...