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...which gave him such a resume, and civil rights, having grown up in a segregated town where his grandfather owned a grocery store on the edge of the black neighborhood. Dole's maiden speech in the Senate was about the disabled. He will support any bill remotely related to Armenia: it was an Armenian doctor, Hampar Kelikian, who repaid his debt to his adopted country by rebuilding broken vets like Dole. He has fought for farmers, for veterans, now for victims of prostate cancer. There were few Republicans in 1974 who would have teamed up with George McGovern on anything...
...situation is similar in some of the old Soviet republics and satellites. Both former communists and former dissidents are fighting daily to maintain or reimpose state control of the media. In Tajikistan, beset by civil war, the government suppressed all independent media. In Armenia police habitually raid editorial offices. In Romania journalists are often under surveillance. In Slovakia a proposed law would provide one- to five-year jail sentences for journalists who "demean" the country from abroad. In Poland, the Czech republic and Hungary the situation is better, but everywhere governments exert pressure by controlling paper supplies, distribution facilities...
...walk along this path," a wary guide tells Kapuscinski. "because you are not a Georgian. The Georgians will not forgive you." He also hears of nearly 40 border conflicts, none more bitter than the clash between Muslim Azerbaijan and the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Geographically separated from Armenia, the Christian majority of Nagorno- Karabakh sees itself as a forgotten outpost of Western civilization in a rising sea of born-again Muslims. Armenians and Azerbaijanis are so polarized by this issue, says Kapuscinski, that anyone who is bold enough to suggest a mediated solution to his own leaders risks ostracism...
...with the views of imperialists in Russia, who are bent on restoring Moscow's control over the former Soviet empire. "The borders of the U.S.S.R. will be restored peacefully," Russia's firebrand politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky recently told TIME. "Ukraine and Belarus will be the first to rejoin Russia. Tajikistan, Armenia and Abkhazia are begging to be taken back as Russian provinces. As for the Baltics, they are welcome to their independence -- if they have sufficient resources to sustain it after we cut short all energy supplies. Sure, they'll be independent, but they'll fall ages behind. In fact, independence...
After the Soviet Union toppled in December 1991, the air giant splintered into more than 150 smaller, independent carriers while the centralized system of maintenance, safety inspections and quality control vanished into thin air. The effect on safety has been chilling. In Armenia last December, 34 people died when a cargo plane illegally carrying passengers crashed and exploded like a Molotov cocktail. Examiners later determined that the aircraft had been loaded with two poorly secured automobiles stuffed with cans of gasoline, and that many of the passengers were also clutching jugs of gasoline as carry-on luggage. In Irkutsk this...