The Washington Times, December 19th, 1997
The tide of democratic reform that swept across the world with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 has leveled off and may be waning, according to the Freedom House annual report on the state of the world released yesterday.
"While freedom made modest gains in 1997, there was growing evidence that the wave of democratization that began in the 1970s may have crested and be receding, as democratically elected governments fell in Sierra Leone and Congo [Brazzaville]," Freedom House President Adrian Karatnycky said yesterday. The report, which has been produced every year since 1955, listed 81...
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