Word: saids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressure on each other by manipulating public opinion," said Gorbachev, waving his hand. "There's no need." Dismissed, Sakharov slowly walked off the stage...
...Mandela and De Klerk chatted, a virulent outbreak of black-on-black violence continued to spread in Natal province. Officials said at least 71 people have been killed since Dec. 1 in a turf war involving A.N.C. and Buthelezi supporters. Pan-Africanists have warned that they would join in fighting the A.N.C. if it strikes a separate deal with De Klerk. What Mandela can do to unite blacks and lead them into negotiations will be better known when he is out of prison and able, for the first time in a quarter-century, to act freely...
...Politburo member Vitali Vorotnikov opened the next day's session of the Congress by asking the Deputies to stand in a moment of silent tribute. Considering the abuse that was once heaped on the former dissident, Vorotnikov's words of praise groaned with irony. "Everything that Sakharov did," he said, "was dictated by his keen conscience and profound humanistic convictions." Whatever bitterness Sakharov's friends may have felt about the way he was treated in the past, the authorities, at least, tried to make amends. An official obituary published on Saturday in the party daily, Pravda, condemned the noted physicist...
...ought to pay our respects to Andrei Dimitreyevich." Approached by reporters, Gorbachev delivered a eulogy of his own, hinting at his genuine feelings for the man who had so often challenged him to move further and faster toward overhauling their struggling country. "It is a great loss," he said. "You could agree or not agree with him, but you knew he was a man of conviction and sincerity. He was not a political intriguer. I valued this...
...economy that Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov unveiled last week reflected the tug-of-war going on within the leadership. Ryzhkov made clear that his approach represented a "third alternative" to making minor corrections in central planning or plunging headlong into a free-market economy. Over the next two years, he said, the state intended to use "rigid directive measures" to reduce the national deficit from about 10% to 2.5% of GNP and increase supplies of consumer goods. A real market with varied forms of property ownership would take shape after 1992, he added, when the state would begin to rely primarily...