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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...convinced that new times will come to you, too, and that the Prague Spring will finally have its Summer," New Forum said in a letter sent to Czechoslovak human rights activists. The letter was made public in West Berlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New E. German Leader Meets With Gorbachev | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...batallion--which Ryan said was specially trained by U.S. forces--comandeered the local schoolhouse as a garrison and captured Manuel Cartagena, the former mayor of San Jose Las Flores who visited Cambridge last spring...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: Council Chides Star Markets | 10/31/1989 | See Source »

Retired after 31 years as chief of intelligence. A clever innovator, he knows where the bodies are buried and the moles are burrowed. Last spring, while promoting his book Troika, a story of East-West relations, he expressed admiration for Gorbachev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closet Reformers | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Trouble started in the spring, when congressional leaders and the Bush Administration began putting together a deal. The President's goal was to keep his read-my-lips campaign promise of "no new taxes." Congressional leaders wanted to appear to meet deficit-reduction targets without cutting any politically popular spending programs. Budget director Richard Darman came up with a solution that was simple -- too simple. A cut in the capital-gains tax would at least temporarily raise money to cover the revenue shortfall. Many Democrats at first supported the plan that looked like all gain, no pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leave It to Cleaver | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...spring of 1872, the naturalist John Muir was asleep in a small cabin in the Yosemite Valley. "At half past two o'clock," he wrote later, "I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake . . . the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken, and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened, shouting, 'A noble earthquake! A noble earthquake!' feeling sure I was going to learn something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: When the Earth Cracks Open | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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