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...regain public confidence in the wake of the abortive coup, Aquino last week sacked nine of 19 Cabinet ministers in the third such shake-up of her presidency. The Cabinet changes, acknowledged press secretary Adolfo Azcuna, were prompted "by the same reasons, perhaps, that precipitated the coup." None of the ousted ministers had been accused of corruption, but some of their departments were widely considered ineffective, particularly Justice, Transportation and Education, where services had virtually broken down. Aquino also overhauled the Agrarian Reform Department, which has largely failed to deliver on her election promise of land redistribution...
...were necessary and, in the Gorbachev era, acceptable to Moscow. In search of new ideas and a democratic image in January 1989, parliament passed legislation permitting the formation of opposition political parties for the next election, to be held in the spring. The communists, in a desperate bid to regain some legitimacy, have renamed themselves the Hungarian Socialist Party, but they are expected to capture no more than 15% to 20% of the vote...
...revolutions of 1848 failed. The leaders of the uprisings fell out among themselves, and the forces of conservatism managed to regain control. Autocrats in Austria and Prussia revoked constitutions they had granted under popular pressure, and Bonaparte's flamboyant nephew, Louis Napoleon, became dictator of France...
Right-wing violence directed against academic institutions has historical roots within El Salvador. The formerly prominent state-run Universidad Nacional de El Salvador (UNES) was devastated in 1979 by the army and was shut down from 1981 and 1984. Although since reopened, it has never been able to regain the international prominence it once commanded...
...mark a first anniversary, let alone a second. Israeli leaders insisted the rebellion would be quickly crushed. But a second year without a settlement pays credit to the Palestinians' remarkable endurance and ingenuity. Armed with stones and Molotov cocktails, Arab youths have managed to confound the Israeli army, regain their tattered pride, and remind the world that Israel's "enlightened" occupation is a painful contradiction in terms. Yet many Palestinians fear their revolution has stalled. Mass demonstrations have given way to smaller skirmishes waged by a hard-core group of activists, and Israel has yet to concede so much...