Word: manifestos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks the provocative letter remained unanswered. Then, on April 5, Pravda blasted back in a full-page editorial that reverberated throughout the | country. The broadside denounced Sovetskaya Rossiya for printing a "manifesto for anti-perestroika forces" and accused reform opponents of "old thinking." Western diplomats and Soviet sources said the editorial bore the style and rhetoric of Politburo Member Yakovlev, who is credited with being the architect of glasnost. Recognizing that it was outgunned, Sovetskaya Rossiya reprinted the Pravda editorial in full the next...
However, even though Gore is the Democratic candidate most likely to win votes in the South, he is far from being a racist, conservative good ol' boy. Like his father--former Senator Albert Gore, Sr., who, alone among all Southern senators, refused to sign the "Southern Manifesto" attacking "Brown v. Board of Education"--Gore has been a strong supporter of civil rights legislation and has vehemently criticized recent Administration attempts to gut the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action. Indeed, after Jackson, Gore is the top choice of several major civil rights groups. Gore has also sponsored and supported legislation...
Likewise, one could hardly ask for a better short introduction to Constable than the one this show gives us -- not only the fresh landscapes of the pastures of Dedham Vale and the sparkling little manifesto of a painting, Water-meadows at Salisbury, 1829, rejected by the Royal Academy of Arts as "a nasty green thing," but also the cloud studies and several of his grandest oils, such as The Lock, 1822-24. There are also such painters as John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer, Francis Towne and Thomas Girtin, whose images of landscape exhale the sweet breath of exact vision through...
...bury P.W. Botha, not to praise him," declared Elijah Barayi, president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, at its convention in ( Johannesburg last week. The 1,500 delegates roared their approval of Barayi's plans for the South African President, then endorsed the Freedom Charter, the 1955 manifesto of the outlawed African National Congress that calls for an end to apartheid and nationalization of the country's banks, corporations and gold and coal mines...
Kinnock, 44, trim and combative and sporting in his lapel a red rose -- the Labor Party's new symbol -- was ebullient as he launched his campaign. It was notably different from the one that led to Labor's humiliating defeat in 1983 under his predecessor, Michael Foot. The Labor manifesto, titled Britain Will Win, ran a trim 17 pages, in contrast to 40 for the 1983 catalog of promises...