Me. In the late 1970 s. The world was in turmoil never before had so many people taking to the streets millions of demonstrators demanded more democracy greater freedom higher wages and world peace and across the globe women were calling for equal rights. For all these hopes seem to take a back seat in the world shackled to the ongoing confrontation between the United States and the soviet union. There appeared to be little alternative to the 2 political blocs the cold war has the world firmly and thats when. The west was still feeling the after effects of the oil crisis of the early 1970 s. Economic growth had slowed and unemployment was steadily rising the postwar boom had come to an end. In britain James Callaghans labor government came under pressure from its financial obligations to the International Monetary fund but also from a seemingly endless series of strikes that have paralyzed the country. In Eastern Europe poland remained under soviet rule the polish economy was in crisis and the country was still scarred by the harsh the question of the worth of 970 but the election of polish Cardinal Cardinal as pope in 1978 kindled fresh hope. China was drained after 30 years of oppressive. In december 978. 00 the Chinese Communist party entrusted the face of the country. Who was already in his seventys. In iran the brutal western oriented dictatorship of bashar was under huge pressure from demonstrations that were tipping over into revolt although u. S. President jimmy carter still so iran as an island of stability hundreds of thousands of iranians would challenging the Security Forces and the army on the streets of tehran demanding an end to the shahs rule. At the dawn of 979. 00 it seemed the world was ready to be rocked. But the leaders of the major western nations the United States france the United Kingdom and west germany appeared unconcerned as. The french antilles they were unaware that the location of their meeting was only a few kilometers away from the air a small. Officially the 4 heads of states gathered in the outer loop were preparing for the upcoming g. 7 summit in tokyo smiling reassuringly for the cameras in their shit sleeves. In reality the mood was fun lets bring. In iran the situation had become untenable as international protests condemned the shahs dictatorship the country was sinking into chaos and Oil Production had almost completely stopped france was eager to be rid of an embarrassing guess they had been hosting for several months the exiled iranian cleric ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini the voyage of states came to a decision that the shah would have to resign and leave iran and the aging cleric who they knew little about would be allowed to return to stabilize the country and preserve the economic interests of the west. And i heard about this why the long conference i think he was there that. If the show i put may need such a disaster for the west. All of the sudden the mainstream of. This started talking about me as a big shot at the big white over the shah which was not. A lot of money. There was this great propaganda strategy and the european media fell into the trap because that image was really to idel like almost like a garden of eden. Khomeini khamenei never failed to state that everything he did would be determined by islam sooner pavel islam he had always dreamt of you know state in the sharia law which ruled a very important part of it was the rights of women the family law and everything that was why he had been sent into exile because he had objected to the right of women to vote the floor on French Television khomeini was asked who would really run when the shah was gone are you. Sure you. Anything. No no it wont be me will choose a council and in this council there will be a parliament elected by universal suffrage. That was the big lie here but the majority believe it. Between all part of the society too good for changing the system i. Think to show that there were people out on the streets with with. Carts saying. If the show has gone shot the show has left and theyre free think i mean it was just an expression of. We were in a group we were always in the streets the streets were absolutely packed and there was a huge sense of solidarity all this had quite a euphoric in fact i stop. Here. Meeting. And i was standing outside on university with some other people. To watch this and then this man sits standing next to me a working class man the stretched out his hand and held my hand and he said now we are one and this pick. Thats what the spirit of getting for. 6 christmas is still poured into. Me and the police and the secret police and theres nothing. There was. No power from imposed on the population so it was total freak everybody was soul friendly to each other everybody was helping everybody was killing for dog and this. You. Know that you might not pick out. In the name of god now after 4 months of living in france. I am leaving here to serve my country. Cynicism its also necessary to express my gratitude to the french government and people for providing me with security measures and freedom of expression. Expensive. While Ayatollah Khamenei was taking off from paris 9000 kilometers away another plane had another cleric on board the newly elected Pope John Paul the 2nd he was on his way back from his 1st papal visit abroad in mexico the pope had unequivocally rejected the in his eyes marxist content of the liberation theology that was challenging the Catholic Church in latin america but he was careful to avoid revealing to the media that he planned to launch his true crusade against communism in his native country of potent. You. Told him its annoying people have no hope it was. Many years after the war but sir communism had been around for so many years the shops were empty life was hard everything was approved. And the culmination you had very few believers in cars. Many more introverts to be pulled because people have no illusions decision was not lost but there they feel that even though it became a big mind to overcome. But still how to make sure. This is true and i intermediation linked to this. There are only 2 programs in the poll in those days. We all listen to the news of 7 30 in the evening i think. This was a common a strong you know state run gone communist or propaganda machine. So you know you listening to it just with one ear and never believe half of it and then somebody in the middle of the news they said the. Poll has been sure chosen as the pope. And thats what i mean why is picked up i thought a polish pope i think then maybe its not so much for the religious it was nationalist the national he was received in poland this is my impression not as a leader of the conflict church but as the most prominent people. In there were the thought. We had the Party Membership card but each of us was also in our soul a pole. And all of a sudden you know it was unprecedented appalled to become pope and would sit on the throne of st peter. It was extraordinary and we had such a feeling of pride. But there was also a sense that this would become a big problem for the leadership. On the other side of the world a giant was beginning to awaken from it slumber. Done shopping have been a fellow revolutionary of mouths i dont he had been arrested during the cultural revolution but was now taking control of the Chinese Communist party when i arrived in beijing the apartment which wired family and i. Occupied looked out onto the great multilane highway of the avenue of eternal peace and every morning i would watch the band of women going to work. Like so many people in china living a zombie like existence. Once dont become the paramount leader he never took the position of Prime Minister he wanted to be the power behind the throne but nobody could doubt that he was the supremes rule of trying. To achieve by the late 1970 s. The party slogans no longer revolved around communism the new slogan was the 4 modernizations meaning National Defense industry agriculture and science and technology this modernization was intended to appeal to the Chinese People. Yes little Chinese People were no longer interested in communist ideals Deng Xiaoping knew this and understood the party had to offer something to unite people thats why he announced this modernization catching up with the west he also east political tensions with the u. S. And the west that formula was a way to preserve the communist partys rule. Youre. Done shopping as a pragmatic nationalist wanted the strategic strength and a lot and friendship of the United States in case the soviet union try to use its superior military pod to intervene in chinese politics u. S. Policy toward the soviet union after world war 2 was basically formulated by George Kennan different assigned to the u. S. Embassy in moscow. His concert concept of containment was that if the Serviette Union or walled off and left to its own devices its system had so many defects that it would ultimately collapse and so we began a process that led to a decision on our side to normalize relations with china the United States of america and the people the public in china have agreed to recognize each other and to establish diplomatic relations as of january 1st 1979. The United States recognizes the government of the people the public of china as a solo legal government of china both believe that normalization of sino American Relations is not only in the interest of the chinese and American People but also contributes to the cause of peace in asia and in the world i am pleased to announce that right premier. Accepted my invitation. And workers in iraq. I. Hat. In early 1979 britain was suffering one of the coldest winters in its history. Even worse with the protected strikes that were undermining the government of Prime Minister james cameron. Simply because the results were quite important is that this really was Margaret Thatcher whod become leader of the conservative policy for years and now intended to take advantage of a neighbor policy in disarray so if you ask whether the next conservative government will cut controls and regulations and keep interference in peoples lives to a minimum my answer is yes thats exactly what we should. Call it fell right in the general election of 179 because in the winter of 17870. All these strikes all came together under a labor camp. There was a perfect position for her to be and to say this call to all the people because of a country like. Mentioned this creature or for called my nation in mark to market loosely called the british with its organized. Cliche is refuge in the streets. To look at what clearing dust where we reckon youd think they would hospital porters standing at the gate so hospitals that people would hold those who help. The government to let the people they have until they do it to get. Much dramatic it will be. The bodies of the dead couldnt be about it because the crippled workers are on strike i think from that moment the election of a conservative government has to stop a bull she did always want to be Prime Minister but she thought if she said it everyone would laugh at her because it just seemed too remote a possibility when she was a young woman the most famous definition of democracy is government of the people died of people for the people not Government Office section of the people by a section of the people or a section of the pm. One of the most impressive things about Margaret Thatcher is you never saw her in anything except the most immaculate. Condition and it was that men dont really have to think about this even if we go about suits. And thats about it but for women its a trip to a different she understood that the men were a club and they would support one another if they did something stupid. But the women werent and if they did something stupid they were out she saw it all as a battle she said theres no 2nd chance for a woman lonely hard to find an example of Margaret Thatcher ever measured she was wrong you dont admit it youve changed your mind you get on with it change your mind but you never give any ground chairs that was a definite view of how you can be a leader to people really there was very guts thatcher which reacted in a very typical way a certain sort of. Producer decision and there was the thinking factor it took a bit of time to get past the 1st one to address the certain one but you had to learn to. Look through say a thing in her eyes that was missing was the understanding not societys not entirely composed of achievers and there are 203035 percent of people who are not very happy are not enjoying their jobs and generally im able to cope and who need the help of a society which is generous towards those who are less advantaged that was her weakness saying oh the answer is simple in carriage them to work harder and they will encourage them to produce the right sort of goods and they will and then we too will be able once again to join the 1st division of nations dont just hope for a better life vote for one. On his return flight back to iran Ayatollah Khamenei surrounded himself with journalists a strategy that would ensure worldwide coverage of the event and help safeguard him from attack by anyone mating royalists to the shock. Of the web after 15 years in exile khamenei was eager to finally accomplish a plan he had concealed from the wider world. Doesnt mean hes acquitted i didnt know anything about khamenei really we wanted the revolution to continue its course for us it was a huge moment in history that i was interested in the enormous welcome he received. And i was hoping hed go back to calm and stay there very interesting god means a lot of people have gone to where its copied it was they were as much these people i think i was thinking maybe i can put in the religious that you have to remember that a large number of them went and very content because of what he had promised he had promised coaches democracy cooperative was the only for me it was a nonissue. He had come so what. Was in the name of allah the gracious the merciful in the beginning was the name of allah. But rejects the corruptible. Happy is the true believer. To the enemy of people and the religion of allah. Cant keep up a little there was a great deal of laughter because this persian was not very good or maybe it was his own version. He blended it with language from the quran food he was shaping his own image and perhaps that was really who he was. For us at least it was very exotic that was our impression of him and in a way it also showed us what the people were like to look to see he has told them he will give the country freedom of course he wont give the country freedom and then these people will turn against him exactly as they turned against the shah you know that experience was there was so fresh in our mind so we were hopeful it. We were sad cassock torch there that was a fatal mistake little by little happened that khomeini and islamic actually people they came to the palmer leg bush the left was not demanding democracy. And for various reasons this rejection of democracy was the same spirit that made it easy for the islamists to gain power you 1st seem more like the. Then we saw in all of the demonstrations from certain time of coming to reman also read black child door and also a scarf on Something Like that with a job. This sawing talking to everybody for the unity of the struggle the women have to wear the hijab and they offered them also in this truth of the tear on in the demonstration world was that the veil worn by these women it seemed acceptable since they were all women of the people it was as if the veil had become something belonging to the women of the people and that was a disaster to call them catastrophe i think everybody was aware that there would be a confrontation but we were almost convinced or not almost definitely convinced that leave with the victors. Because we where that revolution. There is a sophomore force at the International Womens day the womens the most stringent was not called on by any Political Organization it did not belong to any it was as demonstration of women 1st planned to celebrate the night before ace of march i think i heard it on the 9 oclock news khomeinis said that women should not go to work naked. Nature meaning without the faith more lonely didnt take him seriously i thought hes crazy hes out of his mind of it among ourselves we laughed and said another random statement coming out of nowhere but we were wrong minnow the fact that women should go to work there was like a slap in the face. They have also been martyrs among us women we fought with the veil and without it for our freedom and that of the people and if khomeini continues like this i who am a true muslim will leave my religion. But were not allowed to speak for women the islamic government has the only word we women are not allowed to speak. Was the e. U. Was i believe that over in really young women that they came to the streets if even for me it was very important to know why they are out and all of them they said that if we dont will go back we wanna talk of war freedom taking care of them or his job were calling for equal rights with men our thinking is if we dont speak to each other now when the constitution is written they will not give us anything more were demonstrating not only because of the veil but because of a whole range of far more important things that you are passionate based not on have peace johnnies through the instead of from the west nor from the east this universe was especially from the 2nd day. The mob. Armed with chain they came against our demonstration they really did a lot of their to do this said a lot of their towards to development and in the most ration and also they start to attack us with chains they have pushed them to blind alleys. And against the wall its taken out their. Penises and heading in to them telling them you want freedom come and get but the women answer to them was really struck. The odd. Accomplice they brushed it off by saying none of this matters the a mom never said he was going to impose this women need to calm down its a royalist demonstration things like that and the left called on women to stop. That was a. The moment when this part of the population realized. That they had to confront we usually. After months of tough negotiations the polish authorities welcomed john paul the 2nd to the country of his birth the pope knew that this 2nd trip of his pontificate with be an extremely delicate affair he arrived in poland not only as the leader of the church but as a political figure leaving the church in an intended reconquest of the European Countries still under the soviet. Ok actually poland was not a religious institution but was sort of on that independent National Institutions independent from. Her and i would say many people were going to catch up necessarily because they were they were. They expressed. Their thank you to all of the System Center also the role of culture. There was an attempt on the part of communism in poland to suppress the colts the son extends a section of the socialism based on the cocteau political done the mass and on the city police. We went in a group on a bus early in the morning and arrived in warsaw at about 7 in the morning and got. To play muckers id been on thats where before at the time it was called victory square. It was the 1st time it seemed so big to me sort of more talaga. Loses really euphoric situation and be really really pleased i mean it was just something they could never have believed to have happened if the pope visited them in the back of the country that he would not be sought. Otherwise i think the warmer sea. And this too can believe it i think when the pope actually arrived you could still hardly believe that he was in poland as far as the police boat. But. Saying he said we waited i dont know 6 hours then he arrived and the mood changed. I. Was appalled and some if all seen it this new sense of our wedding reception by the full length as i thought understandably given up on the despair from the earth about 1st of all our history and our policy position in 1979. The post television of course they knew they had to show the visit because it was obvious that they they could say no but it was also view so they were going to try and play down the whole thing and to make sure that the crowds werent too big and so on so it was maybe a long lens and sure less people very good. We always the possibility to see old people empty places and pulled it out. So. Just. Eat. I left. At the end of the homily he prayed to the holy spirit all knew. Hed be. Youd. Be. Jadi it was a very clear in my opinion political message that peace you have to think unification and you have to opens it. Have to open limits which divide the word and people. As i was hearing you say worse than the photographer behind the article. From above the just looks like a like a profiteer you think its not even people but when you look closely this is the right way and i just really cant imagine if i just im in a crowd in the sun for 4 hours and hours but they love to come in they just for there was. Anything sacred where they could show the hatred for the system these are slogans we saw the book of which means we got. Not sure the right up nowadays but those as a form of protest against the current government is a strong. Certainly yes near. The very yet another she she will soon know each sure act yet new york says. Shes actually them all of us just like me watched stagecoach is. New. Story. You will learn your spats each. West out of your own oh me age suit a. Year. Old. Warm you up on your fresh air that old doc will. Promise every kind whenever theres a conflict chance you have some. Country on national specifics of this and the politics could be very spirit is strong given our history the history of the man independent institution attracted people not only because of their religious views and also because of people through national. Only kim who are yet nanya on the ends and. Yes. Here aspect of anya rough going out albeit yes paul said that she wished him proud would go east nang out or asked paul samo samo of janja also argue. It was for him important saying that europe which was divided. It was. Hard to say way leading to nothing cell phones or diesel 1st of all he was thinking probably not only on poland but iraq as a center which should not be divided like it was. This election. Year no hugh poem young to dream. In your small rich boy and now new orleans you know. The hood you look at the leeches when it comes to catholicism in our ideology there are also points of contact areas of shared ground. Some even say that jesus was almost a communist in his views with that if you didnt stop seeing those images of people praying we realized they were not really communists they were radishes right on the outside only and we stopped being afraid to touch it a visitor. Second on this visit we saw poland falling to its knees. And not before us. Not before ideology by that before the pope is going to call on the actual peers im. John deduced john paul the 2nd was the ruler of their souls. Communists didnt let us assemble or acknowledge our numbers the pope gathered us together saw us saw that we were many and that many others were joining us. Live on. Top of the columns were beyond their wildest expectations. I also parking them the people safe so its only from within the system can you you can try to change it if yes youre under so you know will not disappear to the logical conclusion. Even without the pope communism would have fallen but much much later and the end would have been bloody he helped ensure that the struggle ended without bloodshed. Somehow so young economists inform our group of them younger people to work on how to improve socialism and the main purpose the most. Expensive truth on. Politics and thats basically the pope gave the word and we the workers working poles turned it into the body of victory which are. Never going to. Have been spent but surely many a good bit of history news going to be given so its i do think that this was a very serious i think it would have to. First sort of darted through the movement came into being constructed corpus and september of 92 there was a great demand for proposal a comment from society and the 3rd now that you know the. Computers i never liked capitalism but i had no choice. About said of each new how to introduce it thats why i supported it you. Know its a comic book the internet is not just for them it tells police that 2 theaters thats not it is the shredder most children used as we felt it was all the talk now my 1st conversation would like but once i was done by form i said that mr truman are human torch or forensic crime i took responsibility to do it and then go so set yes this is a bunk this program but this was a compliment bumpus problem. But necessary he was the man who actually carried through the revolution i did the Political Part but he did the practical part of the practice some things are. Serious. And there is a brief period which i have called the period of extraordinary politics so people tend to be more waiting the gnomon to accept how strange it is but its kind of lost more than 4 years. When youre in tough so you have to be you move very fast to top this you just created by history you cannot fabricate this so this was a psychological and political argument for moving very fast or iran up were going out to the irony was that the proletariat had to support capitalism and establish it that is america would overstep its obvious the focus play for positive growth talking behind the scenes. I tried to enlist the support of leadership including the pope so i met with the most important purpose was on my part to inform hence what is going on in poland in order to avoid criticism respond because there are many people saying the cost of all choked up with. Unemployment. Fortunately he was not critical. Soccer balls favors. Its no wonder spectacular goals. Plenty of emotion. The best of game day. Kick off in 30 minutes on t w. Look at me affectionately as affectionately as you can. In the middle of his Election Campaign to turn the camera back on. In the year 2000 a documentary secretly chronicled a power grab. But a mere 5 year average to the ends justify the means to tims witnesses 75 minutes. 50 years of religion is for. People from many different states for working together toward a common goal the peaceful resolution of religious conflicts. Now female members or for religion for peace from the middle east or demanding a larger role. In the female peacemakers stores where a 5th on team ws. This is d. W. News wire from asia leaders meet as a threat by north korea looms china south korea and japan hold a special summit and agree to continue close cooperation over north Koreas Nuclear program also coming up searching for answers after dozens are killed in honduras prison riot