Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the small red brick house in the black township of Soweto that has become the headquarters for her struggle, Winnie Mandela remains defiant and determined. "The black man does not have the word reform in his vocabulary," she says. "Blacks in this country are talking about the transition of power to the majority. The government will not release Mandela because he will negotiate only on a transfer of power. The Afrikaner is very far from accepting that...
...advanced social and political change in China, ushering in new eras or helping set the country's political agenda. Indeed, the recent outpouring of unrest shares familiar themes with the outcries of earlier student generations: a fervent call for renewed national purpose and a noisy demand for domestic reform...
...Revolution. Though students played an often brutal role in the ten-year purge of the country's intellectual elite, their participation in the Cultural Revolution, like the epoch itself, seems to have been a historical aberration. More typically, China's young demonstrators have called for a quickened pace of reform. On April 5, 1976, students swelled the ranks of the 100,000 demonstrators who massed in Peking's Tiananmen Square to protest the removal by Maoist radicals of thousands of wreaths that had been placed at the Monument to the People's Heroes in memory of Premier Chou...
...called a "fresh voice" to provide criticism in the one-party Soviet Union. The Soviet leader may hope that Sakharov will play that role. If not, Sakharov's views may conveniently get lost in the din of glasnost. Gorbachev may further hope that Sakharov will give Moscow's lagging reform agenda a practical boost at home and a political lift abroad. Toward that end, Sakharov played his part well. "I have great respect for Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev," he told Western reporters. "I find the new policy of openness in this country very important...
...Americans could applaud disinflation and tax reform while savoring the woes of OPEC and Wall Street sharpies...