Word: underlying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The government had been under growing pressure to take action since the hit- squad affair burst onto the front pages of the country's newspapers in October. At that time a prisoner on death row, former policeman Butana Almond Nofomela, alleged that he had been part of a team that...
-- Gorbachev's unprecedented attempt to democratize Communism and his drive for economic reform or perestroika have brought the Soviet Union to the brink of breakdown. As popular frustration rises, recourse to some form of more autocratic rule -- either under Gorbachev or a successor -- is increasingly possible.
Henry Grunwald, U.S. Ambassador to Austria (and former editor-in-chief of Time Inc.), who expressed his personal views, acknowledged that there would be "a great temptation for the Soviets and others to have a little repression on the way to free markets," a process he called "perestroika without glasnost...
Both claims had a slightly empty ring. Baghdad almost certainly does not possess a satellite or the technology to build one. As for the missiles, Western analysts express some doubts about the accuracy of any longer-range missiles under development in Iraq.
The U.S. is well aware of Laurel's impatience and his ambition. Soon after Doy became Aquino's Vice President, a senior administration official laid it on the line during a meeting in Washington. "Look, pal," he said. "we support Mrs. Aquino. We don't care who you go to...