Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will have a positive impact on Communist parties in neighboring countries. It is going to strengthen their reform wings and help the Soviet Union's own perestroika...
...sense of discouraging reform elsewhere in the East bloc...
...failure of the reformers in Hungary will help the conservative ((hard-line)) forces in other socialist countries. Reform is unavoidable, but it can be temporarily halted...
...willing to confront, a kind of neurosis of accepted limits has taken hold from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other. Whatever the situation -- the unprecedented opportunity to promote democracy in Eastern Europe, the spreading plague of drugs, the plight of the underclass, the urgent need for educational reform -- the typical response from Washington consists of encouraging words and token funds. Yet voters, especially the better-organized ones, continue to demand -- and often receive -- more benefits and services while rejecting higher taxes...
...quite so deaf to the public's demands as East Germany's rulers. Thousands flee the country, protesters stage hunger strikes in churches, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev offers a gentle lecture in person -- none of it seemed to make a difference. But last week as the cries for democratic reform reached a crescendo in cities across East Germany, the leaders in East Berlin demonstrated that their hearing faculties were intact -- and that they were distressed by the rising noise level...