Word: revolutionizing
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Like Thomlin, other Americans are expressing their frustration on two fronts. At the polls last November, voters told Bill Clinton they were unhappy with his progress and urged Newt Gingrich & Co. to try something different. ``When you have a wholesale change of government during a period of peace and prosperity...
DIED. MEHDI BAZARGAN, 87, Iranian academic whose lifelong campaign for democracy culminated in his brief premiership after the Islamic revolution; in Zurich. An engineering professor, Bazargan led the National Resistance Movement, which accused the Shah of human-rights violations. Imprisoned several times for his activism, Bazargan allied himself with Ayatullah...
The document made no mention of it, but the p.r.i.'s stranglehold in the poor southern states of Chiapas and neighboring Tabasco may also be at an end. Part of the reported price for the accord's endorsement by the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution was Zedillo's promise...
Whatever subsequent talks may bring, Chiapas' insurgency has already earned it more attention from Mexico City than it received in the previous five centuries. In recent months, some 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers in the state have brought in mobile health clinics and distributed food to local peasants, the...
Other rebel demands--like the re- negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement and a halt to the privatization of state industries--have less chance of success. ``There have to be great changes in this country,'' says Tacho's companion, Major Moises, an M-16 automatic rifle balanced on...