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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...19th century the great powers opposed the upsurge of democracy. Czar Nicholas I of Russia, for example, sent an army to Hungary to crush the revolt there. By contrast, this year's revolutionaries have had the tacit blessing, and sometimes the explicit encouragement, of the Czar's successor as the most powerful man in Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev. By what he has done -- and, perhaps more important, by what he has refrained from doing -- the Soviet leader has made possible the astonishing events of this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: In Europe, History Repeats Itself | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...explicit goal of PBHA is to help individuals gain control over their own lives. In order to promote this goal, PBHA cannot simply offer handouts. It must confront the deeper causes of social misery. PBHers' experience in public service gives them a valuable perspective which should not be muted...

Author: By Michael E. Wall, | Title: For Social Change | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...from the far-right Republican Party, which has issued absurd calls for complete German reunification to 1937's borders, which now include parts of Poland. Kohl reassured Germans across much of the political spectrum as well as Germany watchers around the world by emphasizing the term confederation. With its explicit echoes of the Zollverein, the customs union of German states that existed during the 19th century before Bismarck's unification of the nation, the word summoned an image of a large but unthreatening German entity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: Kohl Takes On Topic A | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...Form a coed Harvard student organization with the explicit purpose of improving campus social life. Apply for recognition from Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Dismal Social Life | 12/6/1989 | See Source »

...arrest of Jennifer Casolo is Cristiani's trump card. It is an attempt to prove to Bush that even those North Americans who peacefully or silently protest the right-wing government are implicit and explicit supporters of the guerrillas. Cristiani's message applies not only to religious and humanitarian workers in El Salvador, but to all of us here who would like to see the end of U.S. financing of the decade-long civil...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: The Blindness of Bush | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

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