University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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U SAY YOU WANNA 1 With a single action that of ripping apart a poster of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet communist system a pro-democracy protester in Moscow summed up a year of stunning change. AP Photo 2,3 Supporters all over the world celebrated as Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress, walked free on Feb. 1 1 after 27 years in a South African detention cell. But anti-apartheid activists insisted that Mandela would never be truly free until the oppressive regime was abol- ished. Two weeks earlier, 45 anti-apartheid pro- testers were arrested in a clash with riot police. AP Photo 4 One hundred days after Chinese troops moved into Tiananmen Square and killed as many as 1,000 pro-democracy protesters, the Association for Freedom and Democracy in China held a week of commemorative events. Angie Parish, art junior, examines a display outside the UGL of news stories and photos from around the world. photo by Hannes Hacker 5 The country which best symbolized the dem- ocratic fervor in Eastern Europe was Germany. In September, the barriers separating two halves of one nation began to fall, as thousands of East Germans like this couple flowed into West Ger- many via Hungary and other neighboring coun- tries. AP Photo 6 To many students, the March 8 election of Toni Luckett, African African-American studies jun- ior, to the SA presidency was another step in the revolution of 89. Luckett made student em- powerment a major focus of her campaign. Here, she accepts congratulations at a victory party. photo by KirkJ. Crippens 7 U.S. officials were surprised when Violeta Bar- rios de Chamorro, candidate of the United Na- tional Opposition party of Nicaragua, was elected president, defeating Sandinista incumbent Daniel Ortega. Her victory represented the downfall of a regime the U.S. had opposed for years through funding for the contras. Chamorro, shown here campaigning in Managua, was elected fairly, ac- cording to international observers that included former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. AP Photo 8 In June, Lech Walesa, leader of Poland ' s Sol- idarity Union, cast his vote in the country ' s first free election in more than 40 years. The par- liamentary election also represented the first time that Solidarity was allowed to participate as an opposition party. AP Photo 9 Once a dissident poet in an oppressive regime, now president of Czekoslovakia, Vaclav Havel shown here at the grave of Andrei Sakarov made his first official visit to the Soviet Union in February. AP Photo Robin Mayhall 18 Revolution of ' 89

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x of whose withheld ' China, pe r . 81 i Chinese vo- w l islanding a performance REMEMBRANCE: At a Candlelight Vigil on September 12, Barry Brents, liberal arts fresh- man, and Li-Ching You, graduate student in psychology, gathered with other students on the West Mall to commemorate the Beijing massacre. RALLY FOR FREEDOM: Stu- dents express their support for democracy in China during the September 12th Tiananmen Square rally on the West Mall. Tiananmen Week 1 7

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1989 was a year of rapid change both on campus and around the world. Revolution of ' 89 19