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From the archives: On the Cutting Edge of Perestroika
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersVILNIUS, Soviet Union -- It was just another weekend in the new Lithuania. Bodies of the late Vatslava Gujiene and 118 other postwar "enemies of the people" were finally brought back from Siberia, their place of exile, for reburial in their native soil....Tags: Entertainment, Political Systems, Moscow (Russia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Career and Workplace
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From the archives: Soviet Group Seeks Total A-Test Ban
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMOSCOW -- Angered by the reported leakage of radioactive gases after the Soviet Union's two most recent underground nuclear tests, a new movement led by writers, artists, physicians and scientists in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan is seeking an...Tags: Communist Party of China, Defense Equipment, Moscow (Russia), Environmental Cleanup, Nuclear Power
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From the archives: 3 Parties Endorse Walesa as Premier
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWARSAW -- The Polish Communist Party's two longtime parliamentary allies bolted their old coalition Wednesday and agreed to back a Solidarity-led government with Lech Walesa as premier. Solidarity lawmakers, with their new partners in the United...Tags: Government, Heads of State, Communist Party of China, National Government, European Parliament
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From the archives: One of 'Our Old Sins'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMOSCOW -- As the last few thousand Soviet soldiers leave Afghanistan, they are returning to a warm welcome from a relieved nation happy to have them home, but also to a growing political controversy over the nine-year war. "Our boys are coming home," a...Tags: Heads of State, Newspaper and Magazine, National Government, Entertainment, Political Systems
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From the archives: Key W. German Banker Killed in Car Bombing
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBONN -- Alfred Herrhausen, the head of West Germany's largest bank and one of the most powerful men in Europe, was killed in a bomb attack Thursday while he was en route to his office in Frankfurt. The office of the chief federal prosecutor said that the...Tags: Berlin (Germany), Somalia, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Explosions
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From the archives: Soviets See Afghanistan Move as Boost to Image
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMOSCOW -- Most countries are weakened politically by such clear military failures as the one the Soviet Union has suffered in Afghanistan, but Moscow expects to emerge with greater international influence after the final withdrawal of its forces Wednesday...Tags: Government, Heads of State, Communist Party of China, Newspapers, National Government
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From the archives: Yeltsin Rally Ends Drive for Soviet Election
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMOSCOW -- Campaigning for the first contested national elections since the earliest years of the Soviet state ended here Saturday with an emotional rally for Boris N. Yeltsin, the radical populist whose anti-Establishment candidacy has symbolized the...Tags: Heads of State, Government, Communist Party of China, Referenda, National Government
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From the archives: Berlin Wall to Come Down, Bush Predicts
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON -- President Bush, who three months ago called for tearing down all physical barriers that divide Europe, now flatly predicts the Berlin Wall will be dismantled during his presidency. His comments, the latest sign that Washington expects...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Colombia, David Frost, Television Industry, Entertainment
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Vidal's Vitriol Spills on Many in The Nation
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe telephone line to Italy is lousy but Gore Vidal's razored tongue slices through the static like a rat snapping through a garbage bag. "The United States lives in a total bubble," the novelist and pundit declares from his home in Ravello. "No...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment, Society, ABC (tv network), Television
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Gore Vidal as Teacher
Times Book EditorGore Vidal has his work cut out for him. In order for historical fiction like his to work as literary art, it is necessary that it not be required to do all of history's work for it. History must be knowledge already held in common if the central,...Tags: Woodrow Wilson, William Randolph Hearst, Oliver Cromwell, Society, Thomas Edison
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From the archives: Czechs Relegate Communist Party to Minority Role
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersPRAGUE, Czechoslovakia -- Three weeks after it was born, this nation's opposition of students and political amateurs on Saturday won its revolution. The victory was sweeping: -- In a new government to be formally announced today, the opposition will hold...Tags: Government, Heads of State, Communist Party of China, National Government, Entertainment
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From the archives: Massive Beijing Protest Demands Leaders Quit
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBEIJING -- Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, surveying the massive protests during his historic visit to China this week, said Wednesday that he is now more convinced than ever of socialism's need for fundamental political and economic reforms,...Tags: Entertainment, Democracy, Public Relations, Moscow (Russia), CNN (tv network)
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