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State Rep. Suzanne M. Bump (D-Braintree) said that Silber had called her and asked her opinion of his chances for winning the Democratic primary. Bump, a supporter of former Attorney General Francis X. Belotti, said she was not impressed by Silber's style, which she described as "philosophically rigid" and "dictatorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. President Silber Mulls Gubenatorial Bid | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...protests posed the greatest threat to date to the rigid model of Communist government that has prevailed here since a Soviet-led invasion crushed the "Prague Spring" reform movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 200,000 Czechs Protest for Reform | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

Trnski's speech was the first harsh public criticism of Zhivkov, 78, who gained power shortly after Josef Stalin's death with the aid of the Soviet dictator's supporters, and ran the country in a rigid, Stalinist fashion. The attack also came during the first-ever live television broadcast of a Bulgarian Parliament session...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bulgarian Parliament Ousts Head of State | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

...first chapter of the Bible. "That was to create a world out of chaos; ours, to create half a world, a free half, out of the same material." The genesis that is now at hand may be just as formidable, because it involves transcending not chaos but a rigid order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, He's For Real Mikhail Gorbachev | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...much more daring attitude toward the debt problem is vital. North American banks have been far too rigid. There should be not only a North Atlantic relationship between Europe and the U.S. but also a triangular one between Europe, the U.S. and Latin America. This has never been properly understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain I Used to Have Little Faith in the U.S. | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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