Spring 1990

Volume 1, Issue 2

Election Watch

Reports on elections in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Grenada,  Nicaragua, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Zimbabwe.

Documents on Democracy

Excerpts from: the victory speech of Nicaraguan presidential candidate Violeta Barrios de Chamorro; South African president F.W. de Klerk’s speech opening Parliament; the platform of Lithuania’s pro-independence Sajudis movement.

News and Notes

Burmese Ban Leading Opposition Candidate; Dissidents Press for Change in Cuba; CSIS Holds Conference on Democratic Transitions; Tanzania’s Nyerere Hints at Multiparty Opening.