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...domestic terrorists may be the wave of the future. Officials in Europe, Asia and the U.S. believe local violence is bound to increase. The Balkan states and Eastern Europe, with their rising, angry nationalisms, will provide fertile ground. Experts of the Counterterrorism Study Group in Washington say that the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia has mounted three terrorist attacks inside the U.S.S.R. since the end of the gulf war. Others single out the murderous Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) in Peru, which makes violence against civilians a part of its guerrilla campaigns...
...ancient porticoes and 70-ft.-high granite columns dwarf the tourists wandering among them. From the esplanade of the temple of Jupiter -- once the world's largest Roman temple -- Anita Tarossian, 19, and her fiance, Hagop Bedrossian, 23, stand gazing at the temple of Bacchus below them. The Armenian-Lebanese couple have returned from Toronto this summer. They epitomize all that Hizballah objects to. A gold-and-turquoise crucifix hangs from a chain around Anita's neck. Both wear shorts and stand with their arms around each other. "We don't care what Hizballah thinks," says Bedrossian. "Let them object...
...actually supposed to come from Entertainment Corporation U.S.A., a subsidiary of a British firm. But as the deadline neared, the sponsors filed for bankruptcy and the whole tour seemed in jeopardy. To the rescue, like some plumed boyar galloping across the steppes, came Ara Oztemel, a Turkish-born Armenian American who heads an East- West trading corporation named Satra (and plays a hot saxophone on the side). And so the show could go on. But the Bolshoi leaders are aware that they still face a daunting challenge. "Our task is not to return to the world stage, which...
...political, economic and cultural Europe with institutional underpinnings -- the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission on Human Rights and other institutions -- to which grievances can be and have been brought. Even in the Soviet Union, putting aside tragedies like the Armenian-Azerbaijani strife, the recent rapprochement between Yeltsin and his eight republican leader-colleagues and Gorbachev, however temporary it may be, suggests that people have begun to recognize a more pluralistic political culture than had existed a year...
...Americans, Japanese) accomplished horrors that amounted to a usurpation of the power of God over creation. The world in this century went about a work of de-creation -- destroying its own generations in World War I; attempting to extinguish the Jews of Europe in the Holocaust, to destroy the Armenian people, the Ukrainian kulaks and, much later, the Cambodians -- all the reverberating genocides...