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Ironically, it will be the task of his successor to undo much of that dubious bequest under pressure from a Kremlin leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who is now promoting many of the reforms that Husak suppressed. Whether Jakes (pronounced Ya-kesh) is the right man for that job is hotly debated. A colorless Soviet-trained bureaucrat who presided over a sweeping purge in the early 1970s, he hardly qualifies as new blood. In an interview with TIME, Dissident Playwright Vaclav Havel called Jakes a "man without a specific face, without his own ideas." On the other hand, said Havel...
...country defied all odds by laying down the constitutional groundwork for democratic reforms and advancing with astonishing speed to next week's election. Having come so far so fast, South Korea remains uncomfortably aware of the danger that, as in Haiti, an edgy military just might step in and undo their gains with equally astonishing speed...
Perhaps they were being illogical in the expectation. Ronald Reagan's agenda when he came to Washington was to undo as much as possible the work of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Now, after 59 months of consecutive economic growth in Reagan's Roaring Eighties, trouble arrived, and everyone (even businessmen who hate Government interference) expected Reagan to start sounding like F.D.R. They may even have wanted him to get on television after the crash and say, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Suddenly they wanted activism from a President who has always believed Government should essentially...
Since coming to power in early 1986, Aquino has survived five coups and rumors of countless others. She has endured confrontations with the left and the right, with Communist rebels and prickly colonels. She has moved too quickly for some Filipinos, too slowly for others, as she tries to undo two decades of corrupt rule by her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos. But along the way she has captured the imagination of both her country and the world with her gentle words and indomitable spirit...
Whatever set of regulations emerges, it will take time to undo the severe damage to the City of London's reputation. For many Brits, the Guinness affair has reaffirmed a deeply felt suspicion of the City. Recently, 80% of those surveyed in a Gallup poll believed that the charges of "shady dealings" and "corruption" applied to "many" City companies. "I always felt there are bigger rogues at the top than there are at the bottom," says George Payne, a foreman at British Road Services' Oxford depot. "So this is no surprise...