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defending the transition. Equally central to the checking of reversal were the syner-
gies between the media and civil society groups, still including thousands of students.
These synergies and increased transparency, furthered to a surprising extent by baser
forces, would become critical again in the future, each time helping to block a threat-
ened reversal of democratization.
