Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These reform efforts are to be applauded, but the world should not be fooled. De Klerk's policies do not make him a true political reformer. He has not indicated that he will give Blacks equal political rights, since such a move would lead to the end of white apartheid rule...
...demands were for free elections and the resignation by Dec. 10 of Husak, a central figure in the crackdown on reform after the Soviet-led invasion of August...
...East Germany, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in five cities Monday night, pressuring the ruling Communists to keep their reform promises in what for many has become a weekly ritual...
...real democracy does come to East Germany, much of the credit should go to Leipzig (pop. 567,000), which has emerged as the driving force for reform. Through more than a month of spontaneous, peaceful demonstrations, which often brought more than half the city's population into the streets, Leipzig's workers precipitated the ouster of repressive party leader Erich Honecker and helped inspire the historic breach of the Berlin Wall. "They call us 'the Leipzig Miracle,' " says Alfred Richter, 38, a supervisor in a hotel kitchen whose wife and two small children joined in the protests...
...reform our economies, we would just fall back in the trap. Whatever accords we reach ((with the lenders and international bodies)) would have to be conditioned on adjustments that we make in our own economic systems. We've got to be able to ensure that the resources generated from debt reduction and new financing are used according to very specific investment norms and according to economic procedures in line with our realities...