Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East Germany new party leader Egon Krenz mounted a campaign to live down his long association with his discredited predecessor, Erich Honecker, who is under investigation for suspected abuses of power. Struggling to hang on to his job as the party prepares for a seminal congress on Dec. 15, Krenz announced that he favored rescinding the country's constitutional guarantee of a "leading role" for the Communist Party, opening the possibility of multiparty rule...
...just that the shift of winds in Eastern Europe is so incredibly rapid, but so disconcertingly nebulous. The changes in Poland and Hungary are not like an election campaign, which has a definite conclusion, or an earthquake, whose scale can be precisely measured. Where we will end up, few are willing to predict...
Throughout the campaign, Gandhi portrayed the election as a choice between stability under his government and potential chaos under the opposition...
South Africa's relatively few remaining segregated beaches are among the targets of the three-month-old "defiance campaign" being waged by black activists. But when State President F.W. de Klerk last week called on municipalities throughout the country to integrate their beaches, it was less a response to those protests than another move to make good his election promise of change...
...leader. Government forces then supposedly started shooting, and both Wijeweera and his would-be assassin died in the fire fight. The third J.V.P. leader was shot in a separate incident. Skeptics suspected that the security forces simply murdered the rebel leaders, who had led a two-year terror campaign against the government's decision to admit Indian military forces in a bid to settle another insurgency...