Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because the inability to relinquish the past can produce such horror that memory -- what place, what price, what power to give it -- is a central question in the great historical transition from dictatorship to democracy. All the new Latin democracies, for example, are emerging from periods of brutal dictatorship. What to do with this past? Uruguay chose, by referendum, a forgetting. It voted to let the brutalities of military rule be bygone. Argentina did the opposite. It prosecuted those who gave the orders for torture and execution. The Argentine experience, however, with its semiannual military revolts and its reversion...
...former leader of Moscow's Communist Party. Earlier, he had failed to win a seat in the new Supreme Soviet, and that, it | seemed, was the end of his thrust for position. But then Deputy Alexei Kazannick, an obscure university professor from Siberia, rose and announced that he would relinquish his place to Yeltsin. As applause rang through the hall, Gorbachev watched impassively from the raised tribunal before he told the hushed assembly, "In principle, I support such a proposal...
Reports have said Deng planned to relinquish his active role in setting policy after the Chinese-Soviet summit. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev left China yesterday...
WASHINGTON--President Bush said yesterday that Panama's presidential election was marred by fraud and irregularities and called on military ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega to "heed the call of the people" and relinquish power...
...Charlotte, N.C. To many working families, a higher quality of life, and more of it, compensate nicely for the absence of the Metropolitan Opera or the Hollywood Bowl. When Equitable Life Assurance Society summoned Jim Crawford, 43, back to Manhattan from its Des Moines office, he would not relinquish his Iowa life-style. "We based that decision on the quality of the environment," he says. "People do work hard here, and there is a deep appreciation for family life." He traded a higher salary and a two-hour commute for better schools and more free time. "We wonder...