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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Around Prague's Wenceslas Square, the site of huge pro-democracy protests the last three weeks, thousands of Christmas shoppers and workers on lunch break joined in the three-minute demonstration of support, ringing tiny bells or shaking sets of keys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs Rally in Support of New Regime | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

...Brno, opposition leaders said the noontime action was to show support for opposition leader Vaclav Havel, who is considered a favorite to succeed Husak. Posters plastered throughout central Prague showed a smiling Havel with the caption, "Havel to the Castle," a reference to the seat of the presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs Rally in Support of New Regime | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

...government of national understanding" contains 10 Communists, two of whom enjoy opposition support, seven non-party members and two members each from the small Socialist and People's parties, which recently broke with the Communists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czechs Rally in Support of New Regime | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

...have some very, very difficult choices to make," Bulger said. "This is clearly an unpopular initiative...Those who support it do so in the honest belief that it is a necessary measure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Begins Debate on Budget Package | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

Cases that involve the withdrawal of a feeding tube, as opposed to a respirator or heavy mechanical support, pose particular problems. The American Medical Association and many ethicists believe even artificial nutrition and hydration is a medical treatment that may be withdrawn from terminally ill or irreversibly comatose patients. But others disagree; to them, food and water, even through a tube, represents the necessities of life and constitutes basic care. Some experts also debate whether there is a clear or a blurred line between withholding nourishment and the next step, injecting death-inducing drugs. Many worry about a slippery slope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Whose Right to Die? | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

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