Word: session
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd at the state-sponsored rally loudly cheered deputy Slavcho Trnski, who launched an unprecedented attack on Zhivkov during the parliament session. Marchers carrying banners for perestroika and waving Bulgarian flags chanted, "Zhivkov to court...
...session to approve Modrow, the first secret balloting in the Communist-dominated Parliament elected a new speaker, Guenther Maleuda, who told the assembly it was duty-bound to heed the calls of the reform movement...
...began by taking on Premier Li Peng, whom he had pointedly not asked to meet. In a private session, Nixon reportedly deleted no vitriolics in expressing American outrage over the regime's crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators last June. To end the current impasse, he suggested, the two nations should halt their recriminations and propose mutual talking points. He threw out the first one: "When I go to the embassy, I hope there will not be guards with AK-47s outside." Li retorted that the troops had been posted there to prevent the escape of dissident Fang Lizhi...
Neither would call the session a summit; it is supposed to be too informal for that. To avoid an overcharged atmosphere at their first encounter, Bush and Gorbachev plan to talk without any specific agenda, avoid signing any agreements and part without even issuing a communique. The principal aim, said Bush, is to "deepen our respective understanding of each other's views...
...last direct talks between the Sandinistas and Contras broke down in June 1988. They agreed to a 90-day cease-fire during that session, in March, and Nicaragua had extended it on a monthly basis, with tacit agreement from the Contras...