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Word: savisaar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Valjas has astutely chosen compromise rather than confrontation with the powerful Estonian Popular Front. He has even turned over the key state- planning portfolio to economist Edgar Savisaar, a member of the movement's executive council. During elections last March, the Popular Front did not run its own candidates against party regulars. Valjas garnered 90% of the votes in his district, but a poll for a Finnish newspaper taken just after the balloting showed that if true multiparty elections had been held, the Communists would have placed a distant second to the Estonian Popular Front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Cry Independence | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

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