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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...international figure, Gorbachev is a world-class leader -- with no one else in his class. But unless he can fix the Soviet economy, he might well have trouble winning a free election. If his own people's standard of living continues to deteriorate, Gorbachev may face the disagreeable choice of reverting to genuinely dictatorial methods or retiring in failure and defeat. He will consider himself worthy of the praise and admiration he has inspired abroad only if and when he can prove that his political genius is up to the task of dealing with the economic problems he faces...
...proud that these historical changes have come about without bloodshed or force. This is the result of the wisdom of the people. No one called for revenge...
...Andrei Sinyavsky, one of the leading dissidents of the 1960s, immigrated to Paris in 1973 after almost six years in a labor camp...
...pressure against the system is building, and there comes a point beyond which one cannot turn back. However naive our faith may seem, we will continue the fight. Even if we are convinced the battle is lost from the beginning, at least for the time being we will have to answer the challenge...
Most likely to put the Post Office out of business. Futurists predicted that electronic mail -- computers talking to computers -- would soon replace the stamped envelope. They turned out to be wrong. The true expression of 21st century communications is one fax machine talking to another. Modern high- speed facsimile technology has opened the telephone lines to everything from blueprints to fingerprints, including unsolicited, unwanted faxes -- the 1980s version of junk mail...