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Poles smarting under shock-therapy economic reforms seemed to look to their chief 1980s crusader against communism as an overnight savior. Walesa adviser Andrzej Machalski cautioned, "We have to get people to understand that reality consists of many small problems, not just one big one named 'the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe Populism on the March | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...moment, the alliance is savoring its defeat of Bhutto, who had seemed unstoppable since she returned from exile in 1986 to restore elected government and avenge her father's death at the hands of the late President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. Bhutto stormed the country as the savior of democracy and won enough seats in the 1988 race to form a government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan The Cycle Is Broken | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

Saddam fashions himself such a savior, the new Saladin to wrest the holy land from the crusaders--in this case Israel, the only non-Islamic and democratic enclave in all of the Middle East...

Author: By Joseph Enis, | Title: The Only Cure for the Iraq Disease | 9/20/1990 | See Source »

...some 170 guerrillas across the border from the Ivory Coast and gradually advanced to the outskirts of Monrovia. But the rebels split when Prince Johnson, a Gio, began accusing Taylor of criminality. U.S. officials say that Taylor is just about as bad as Doe, and Johnson is no savior either. "If we had nudged Doe earlier and harder toward an open society and a free market, it might have made a difference," says an official, but as he surveys the dismal prospects, he sums them up in three words: "A bloody mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia To the Last Man | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...almost three-year-old uprising in the occupied territories has pushed the Palestine Liberation Organization tighter into Iraq's embrace. Frustrated Palestinians regard Saddam as the one man willing to do more than mouth empty words for their cause; many have come to regard him as a potential savior. Chairman Yasser Arafat may feel he has little choice but to back Saddam. Still, Arafat will have a tough time explaining his rejection of last week's pan-Arab resolution to his benefactors in the gulf states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Me And My Brother Against My Cousin | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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