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...right to learn or a call to freedom, but as part of a larger campaign to expel the Jews from the Land--all the Land--and liquidate metaphorically and literally the people and the state of Israel. (This is what the various movements within the PLO are still sworn to by their so-called Covenant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Palestinian Posters | 1/4/1990 | See Source »

...than fully successful, the Administration would be running grave dangers. At the extreme, it could bog down in a Viet Nam-style guerrilla war directed by a fugitive Noriega in the jungles. The Panamanian government that the U.S. installed may be regarded as American puppets; President Guillermo Endara was sworn in by a Panamanian judge, but on an American military base at about the time the attack started. A drawn-out crisis could sour U.S. relations with other Latin American nations, eternally nervous about Yanqui intervention against however noxious a government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Muscle | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...opposition in the Soviet bloc -- so it could contest all 100 seats in the new Senate and 161 of the seats in the lower chamber, the Sejm. In June Solidarity won all but one of the contested seats. In August, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, editor of Solidarity's weekly newspaper, was sworn in as the first noncommunist Prime Minister in Eastern Europe since Stalin had imposed his system there 40 years ago. Society -- led, with appropriate irony, by the workers whom Marx and Engels in The Communist Manifesto had exhorted to unite -- had proved stronger than the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of People | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

After the talks recessed for the day, CTK reported that Calfa will meet tonight with those who attended the opening talks to try to have a new government sworn in by tomorrow. He did not take part in yesterday's discussions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Opposition Will Lead Czechs | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

Opposition leaders yesterday rejected charges that they had put Adamec under pressure to change the Communist-dominated Cabinet sworn in last Sunday. which they rejected because it included only five non-Communists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czech Premier Resigns After Negotiations | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

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