Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hints of divisiveness at the top. Last week Pravda published a letter, penned by six influential conservative writers, that attacked the weekly magazine Ogonyok, a leading light of glasnost, for abusing the new openness by distorting history. The letter could not have appeared in the Communist Party daily without support from some top-ranking party members...
...rankled the security-preoccupied military. Two weeks ago a bimonthly military newspaper published a broadside blasting "pacifist calls to our countrymen asking irresponsibly for the Soviet Union unilaterally to 'turn swords into plowshares.' " The Kremlin quickly produced Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the former Chief of Staff, to pronounce his support for the cuts...
...invite Solidarity back into the fold, but not without a harness. According to the three-page document, the government is "in favor of lifting -- under conditions of a national agreement -- restrictions on establishing trade unions." Among the conditions that the unions (read Solidarity) must meet: renouncing all foreign financial support -- including U.S. aid -- and vowing to suppress any attempt by its members to hold public demonstrations or marches. The statement proposes that the timetable for introducing trade-union pluralism should be reached at "round- table talks" that include the government, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and other groups. Jaruzelski left little...
Though a survey showed grudging support for the measures, Sarney obviously hopes the summer plan will yield fruit before November's presidential elections...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher immediately threw her support behind the proposals. If the mess is not tackled voluntarily, she said, the government will seek tougher laws...