Word: unionizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will have a positive impact on Communist parties in neighboring countries. It is going to strengthen their reform wings and help the Soviet Union's own perestroika...
...troop strength and some of those weapons will have to be sacrificed. Neither the Administration nor Congress has suggested what to do. In the meantime, Cheney is proceeding with his own priorities. Because of his belief that there has been only a temporary thaw in relations with the Soviet Union, the Pentagon has barely even begun to assess the U.S.'s real defense needs should the change turn out to be permanent...
...current approval rating in the polls. Making sure the Republican coalition stays intact seems to be the Administration's major priority. Secretary of State James Baker, asked to comment on Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell's criticism of Bush's tepid handling of the situation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, replied, "The President is rocking along with a 70% approval rating...
...mannered pastors, artists and writers who coalesced only six weeks ago around a vague demand for "democratic dialogue." Although New Forum is technically illegal, it has gathered the signatures of more than 20,000 adherents, ranging from teachers and train drivers to electricians and factory foremen. Unlike Poland, where union workers sparked a popular insurrection, no single sector of society fuels the unrest in East Germany. The dissenters lack both a leader with Lech Walesa's charisma and a specific agenda...
...Democratic Movement. Later the government lifted a 20-month-old order that barred Mrs. Sisulu from political activities. Also, De Klerk was the host for three hours of what he described as "talks about talks" with three M.D.M.-affiliated antiapartheid campaigners, all of them rare visitors to Pretoria's Union Buildings, the seat of white rule: Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu; the Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches; and the Rev. Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches...