Word: blocs
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Relatively few blacks will be voting for De Klerk's white-dominated National Party, and few of the 3.6 million eligible whites will cast their ballots for the A.N.C. But there is a bloc of about 2 million colored, or mixed-race, voters and 650,000 Indians the A.N.C. wants to win over. That will be where the party does need to convey a sophisticated message, since the colored and Indian communities are not convinced that they will fare better under a black- majority government. "The coloreds have always been marginalized by the A.N.C.," says Lawrence Solomon...
...partners in Brussels and with Central European leaders in Prague, the same worries emerged over and over. Would Russia backslide from reform and closer ties with the West? Would it reclaim its old sphere of influence in Central Europe? Indeed, Yeltsin looked with dismay at attempts of former East-bloc nations to join NATO. Why should they want to join? "Russia does not threaten any country in Central or Eastern Europe," he told TIME...
After attending his mother's funeral in Arkansas, President Clinton proceeded with his first major European tour since taking office. He will attend a NATO summit meeting in Brussels during which he is expected to defend his plan that permits only very limited association with NATO for former Soviet-bloc countries. Clinton will also visit Moscow, where he will encourage Russian President Boris Yeltsin to carry on with his economic reforms but be more mindful of those who are suffering under them...
...just one. Although the latest revolution unfolded peacefully at the ballot box, the aftershocks were no less unsettling than those triggered by the Bolshevik coup. Ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a golden-tongued demagogue who has been compared with Adolf Hitler, looked to have swept enough votes to establish a powerful bloc for his neofascist party in the State Duma, the lower house of the new Russian parliament...
...Russian democrats were as concerned about a referendum victory. Radical economist Grigori Yavlinsky, leader of a reform bloc ranked second in public-opinion polls, believes a popularly elected legislature would be empowered to amend and ratify the constitution if it failed at the ballot box. But this is precisely the scenario Yeltsin wants to avoid. Since the new batch of deputies elected this week is likely to be an unwieldy mix of democrats, centrists, communists and nationalists, he could find himself confronted by a new parliament just as intent on whittling down his powers as the one he dissolved. Without...