Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following a stormy final session that began after lunch and lasted well past midnight, the W.P.A. voted to accept the Soviet delegation, provided that the use of psychiatry for nonmedical purposes is banned. Moreover, in a symbolic addendum, the organization agreed unconditionally to admit a new independent Soviet psychiatric union whose members are considered genuine reformers...
Even in the unpredictable Soviet Union, television viewers must be astonished by a new program on one of the two state-run channels. Last week, in a Sunday time slot following the evening news, Metropolitan Pitirim, head of the publishing department of the Russian Orthodox Church, appeared on the screen garbed in clerical robes and holding prayer beads. For ten minutes, Pitirim spoke soothingly about the need to set aside daily troubles in order to help others and contemplate the meaning of life. The priest also worked in discreet mentions of Jesus Christ and the Bible...
...negotiations because the process might lead to government concessions that are unforeseen now, but they do not want to go to the table if their presence offers nothing but a public relations success for De Klerk by making him look like a peacemaker. Ramaphosa, head of the black National Union of Mineworkers, concedes that the government does appear to be seeking change. "One could say they are willing to usher in a new South Africa," he says, "but some of us have serious doubts because they are still talking about group rights. That to us is still apartheid." Even...
...that has become the hallmark of glasnost. On the other hand, Starkov, 50, oversees the weekly tabloid Argumenty i Fakty, whose sharp prose and readers' letters more often than not dwell on the changes sweeping the country, and helped make the paper the most widely read in the Soviet Union. Yet last week both men faced pressures far worse than those posed by deadlines: Afanasyev was summarily fired from his job and Starkov's resignation was demanded by high Kremlin officials...
Ever since a debate over whether to accept the credentials of Israel's U.N. delegation became an annual event in 1982, the Soviet Union has sided with Arab countries and voted against seating representatives of the Jewish state. Last week Moscow abstained on the matter. It was the latest sign of a warming trend between the two countries, which have had no diplomatic relations since the Six-Day War in 1967. Better weather seems to be on the way. Shimon Peres, Israel's Finance Minister and leader of the Labor Party, has tentatively accepted a Soviet invitation to visit Moscow...