Word: breakaway
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Midway through the first half, Harvard nearly scored when junior Jason Luzak got a breakaway opportunity. But his smash was deflected off the chest of diving Butler goalie David McVay, and the follow-up shot trickled wide right...
Mental lapses in the second half enabled Fresno State to take the lead. Forced to play more aggressively on offense, Harvard was unable to prevent a breakaway goal toward the end of the game...
...necessary. "The moment may not be too far away when we have to take a step forward," Jacques Poos, the Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, warned last week. The E.C.'s proposal for a three-month moratorium on independence offers the same face- saving opportunity that quieted hostilities in the breakaway republic of Slovenia. The republics' leaders could use the cooling-off period to consider how the region might be stitched together again...
Given the muddled situation in Yugoslavia, it was not surprising that Western officials on both sides of the Atlantic were having trouble finding a comfortable political stance. When violence first erupted, the international community called for the preservation of "territorial integrity" warned separatists that a violent breakaway would receive neither economic nor political support. The U.S. and the E.C. feared that instability in Yugoslavia might ignite secessionist-minded forces throughout Eastern Europe. But that position was undermined by the army's harsh response, which sparked calls for Western officials to uphold such fundamental values as the right to self- determination...
...from diehard imperialists in Moscow, but there is another, internal menace -- a growling presence in the garden. The republic is cursed by its own demography. In that sense, it is a microcosm of the U.S.S.R. More than 80 nationalities share a territory half the size of Arkansas. The new, breakaway leadership tends to behave toward its minorities the way the Kremlin -- starting with the Bolsheviks' first commissar of nationalities, the Georgian Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, alias Stalin -- has treated the more than 100 peoples within the U.S.S.R. No wonder many of Georgia's Abkhasians, Adzhars, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Ossetians and Russians...