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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rainbow sports a political platform that in some ways echoes the CCA's but in other ways goes beyond it. In particular, its platform calls for reform in the basic structure of Cambridge government, which gives nearly all executive power to a council-appointed city manager...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Change Is a Certainty in a Wide Open Race | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

However, that figure may well be increasing under the reform policies of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. This year, another Soviet woman entered the first-year class at Emory College in Atlanta, marking the first time a citizen of the USSR has entered a four-year program at an American college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Latvian Accepted at Harvard Under New Soviet Reforms... | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Energized and emboldened by Gorbachev's daring reform campaign, many East Europeans are setting out to draw new conclusions from old lessons. If most Communist countries share a perception of the political and economic forces that have brought them to this juncture, they lack a common vision of where they are going. Acknowledged Solidarity leader Lech Walesa: "Nobody has previously taken the road that leads from socialism to capitalism." Poland and Hungary are pressing ahead with sweeping reforms that promise to disprove the theory that totalitarian regimes cannot change. Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Bulgaria tinker with old formulas in hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe Uncharted Waters | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...certain that Eastern Europe will ever regain cohesion. Radical reform and conservative intransigence make uncomfortable bloc fellows. Comecon, the alliance's economic union, is crumbling as members scramble to cut separate deals with the West. And the allies are at one another's throats: the Czechs and Rumanians denounce the Polish reformers for sowing chaos, the Poles denounce the Czechs for trampling human rights, the Hungarians denounce the Rumanians for mistreating their Hungarian minority. Gorbachev's phone conversation with Rakowski last week suggests that the Soviet leader finds better promise in an uncharted future than in a failed past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe Uncharted Waters | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...many parts of the world. Even Moscow, the international capital of Marxism, has openly succumbed to the lures of creeping capitalism. To Francis Fukuyama, 36, deputy director of the State Department's policy- planning staff, all these events point to something of far broader significance than the reform policies of Mikhail Gorbachev. "What we may be witnessing," he writes, "is not just the end of the cold war, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: Has History Come to an End? | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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