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The dramatic events in China are indicative of many international developments during the past year. In Latin America, the Eastern Bloc and much of Southeast Asia, people sought changes of the old order and freedom from government repression. Brutal dictatorships were defeated in popular elections during the last year in...
Moody, who joined TIME as a correspondent in Bonn in 1982, is no stranger to social unrest. As TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief from 1983 to 1985, he covered protests by the then illegal Solidarity union. Says Moody: "The riot police in Poland, the ZOMO, can be tough, but...
With so much at stake, Washington wasted no time in showing its support. On the same day that a Warsaw court officially legalized Solidarity, George Bush announced a plan to ease Poland's $39 billion foreign-debt burden, stimulate investment and improve its weak economy. "The Poles are now taking...
But how large a check should the U.S. write as a reward for reforms in Eastern Europe? Should it write one at all? The Administration's largesse is limited by its own budget deficits. More important, Bush advisers are wary of applauding reforms that may turn out to be more...
"We are closing a chapter in our history and opening another one," said Interior Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak. Solidarity leader Walesa, who co-signed the pact with Kiszczak, went further: "I think this may be the beginning of democracy in Poland." But if that prophecy is to come true, Poland must...