Word: schwarzenberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will celebrate with a rally for Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave who led an 18th century Haitian rebellion against French colonialism. A group of prominent Parisian socialists is agitating to rename part of the Rue St.-Honore after Robespierre. "All revolutions have excesses," explains former Health Minister Leon Schwarzenberg, "and any revolution without them must be considered suspect." But so far Robespierre's defenders have had no luck, and even moderates are concerned that the government has gone too far in snubbing controversial revolutionary leaders. "They are going to present people with a pasteurized, dissected, plastic-wrapped revolution," complains...