Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Of course, progress in a peace negotiation must often be measured in shifts of tone. Thus what Arce did not say may be more important. He ruled out neither diplomatic talks nor a negotiated cease-fire. Moreover, a day earlier, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra obliquely suggested that he might be...
Welcome to the "Second Revolution," a phrase used by both Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to describe the upheaval in economics and ideas now under way in the two Communist powers. The Chinese speak of gai ge (reform) or kai fang (opening up). The Soviets...
Gorbachev so far appears confident that expectations about perestroika can be kept in check without imposing rigid limits. But the Soviet Union, like China, may find that the process of reform cannot keep pace with public demands for more democracy. A poll taken by the China Social Survey System in...
Privatization has paid off handsomely in Britain, where 16 major state-owned enterprises, including Jaguar and Rolls-Royce, have been returned to the business sector since Thatcher first took office in 1979. By and large, the companies have prospered. Since it came to power last year, the Chirac government in...
When the sun sets on an empire, who will turn on the lamplights? Or will the fading sky be illuminated by the torches of revolution and anarchy? In South Africa, white rulers desperately hold back the dusk with brutal measures that amount to the imposition of triple daylight saving time...