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...victorious league, one of the first orders of business will be to secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. She alone has the moral stature to press for the end to authoritarian rule and to halt the political factionalism that brought the military to power 28 years ago. Like the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto and Nicaragua's Violeta Chamorro, Aung San Suu Kyi's moral authority stems from family history and political tragedy: her father, Aung San, was a national hero who was assassinated in 1947, on the eve of Burma's independence from Britain...
...would sell to domestic customers at world prices, which are about five times higher than those now charged to other republics. Yeltsin says signing agreements with the Baltic states would be a top priority, hinting that he might help Lithuania bypass the economic blockade that Gorbachev has enforced to halt its drive for independence. These ideas are radical by any Soviet definition and put Yeltsin directly on a collision course with Gorbachev...
Graham's action was the symbolic culmination of two years of escalating activism at Harvard. Just the month before, the day-to-day workings of the University had ground to a halt when students struck to protest academia's complicity in the Vietnam...
...annual rate of just 1.3% in the first quarter, down from a previously estimated 2.1%. Coming on top of a dreary 1.1% growth rate in the last quarter of 1989, the revision indicated that the 7 1/2-year-long U.S. expansion could be in deepening danger of groaning to a halt...
...share Solzhenitsyn's antipathy toward progress. If mankind is the healthy organism I believe it to be, then progress, science and the constructive application of intelligence will enable us to cope with the dangers facing us. Having set out on the path of progress several millenniums ago, mankind cannot halt now -- nor should...