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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would with any other master politician, we should look at Gorbachev's deeds as well as his words. One example is Soviet military power. He still spends 20% of his gross national product on defense, compared with 6% in the U.S. He has modernized all three legs of the Soviet strategic nuclear triad. Soviet superiority in tanks, chemical weapons and combat aircraft has been maintained and in some cases increased. The Soviet Union's military might is greater now than when Gorbachev came to power. Even if he has been sounding to some hopeful ears like a dove, his bristling...
...late afternoon eight years ago, Griffiths Mxenge, a well-known black lawyer and antiapartheid campaigner in the city of Durban, was driving home when he stopped to help four men whose pickup truck had apparently broken down. According to an affidavit given to the police, the men abducted Mxenge, drove him to a field outside a nearby soccer stadium, stabbed him repeatedly and then left him to die in a pool of blood...
...After being named in Nofomela's affidavit, former police captain Dirk Coetzee went public in the weekly newspaper Vrye Weekblad with a story of how he headed a police hit squad between 1980 and 1982 that carried out at least nine assassinations, including that of Mxenge, as well as numerous bombings and abductions. "I was in the heart of the whore," declared Coetzee, who accused senior police officers of authorizing assassinations...
...physician husband is concerned about animal rights, and the arguments of anti- fur activists have moved her. "I've been struggling with the dilemma of buying fur," says La Barbera. "I like the look, but I feel real guilty." She is now shopping for good-quality wool coats as well as for furs...
...made an eerily prescient assessment. "So she becomes the rallying point," he said. "Immediately, corruption will increase. Everybody will feather his nest. At that point, she will be nudged to the side and be made a scapegoat for the mess. Then the military will take over. They will say, 'Well, we've given you your chance.' But they will have made sure she would fail. They will then throw her to the people, and they will come in as the great saviors of the republic." The prediction was made by the President's husband Benigno Aquino Jr. shortly before...