Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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CHANGES: CONVERSATIONS WITH JANE PAULEY (NBC, March 13, 10 p.m. EST). Jane Pauley interviews people who have gone through major personal or professional transitions in her first prime-time special since she left the Today show after 13 years...
...them against ethnic violence and discriminatory new laws. At a patriotic meeting in Leningrad three weeks ago, cries of "Throw out the government!" greeted a man who had been forced to flee the Azerbaijan capital of Baku after he described how he and other Russians were being isolated at special settlements outside Moscow...
Nelan's postings in Washington, Hong Kong, Bonn, Moscow and Johannesburg prepared him well for his current position as a senior writer. In crafting the main story in this week's special section on the Soviet Empire, Nelan drew from his experiences in Moscow from 1978 to 1981. Leonid Brezhnev was in charge, and the reforms that Mikhail Gorbachev later wrought were unimaginable then. "I understand the stage on which the recent changes are occurring," says Nelan, "but often I am completely amazed by the script...
Three days earlier, in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, a meeting of some of Gorbachev's much more determined opponents had added special urgency to his demand for expanded authority. As results of local elections flowed into the headquarters of Sajudis, the Lithuanian popular front, the architects of the independence movement gathered to take stock. The election for the republic's parliament had amounted to a referendum on secession from the Soviet Union. Backing a candidate in each district, Sajudis captured 72 of the 90 seats decided. "If this isn't a landslide, what is?" asked Algimantas Cekuolis, a Communist...
While the Baltics have a special claim to independence, visible fault lines have appeared among several republics as glasnost allowed the non-Russian peoples to speak their hidden thoughts and demokratizatsiya opened the door to new organizations and popular movements. National fronts were formed in almost every part of the country to advance ethnic, linguistic and cultural causes. Marx and Lenin had held that life under socialism would submerge such differences in the sea of workers' internationalist unity. As has so often been the case, Marxist-Leninist theory was wrong...