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...addition, some incoming students say they are confused by the widely disparaging aid offers they have received as a result of the breakup of the Overlap Group, a consortium of colleges which until recently jointly determined aid awards...
...weakened Iraq might leave a vacuum for Iranian power to fill and prompt Turkish Kurds to join their Iraqi compatriots in a breakaway country, Washington stood back while Saddam turned his guns against Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ites. Comments an Administration official: "When Bush and Baker confront the breakup of a nation-state, whether it's Iraq, Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union, they instinctively reach for an older, more traditional kind of world...
...neither Reagan nor the Pope could anticipate the accession of a Soviet leader like Mikhail Gorbachev, the father of glasnost and perestroika; his efforts at reform unleashed powerful forces that spun out of his control and led to the breakup of the Soviet Union. The Washington-Vatican alliance "didn't cause the fall of communism," observes a U.S. official familiar with the details of the plot to keep Solidarity alive. "Like all great and lucky leaders, the Pope and the President exploited the forces of history to their own ends...
Castro's Council of State made it clear that it hoped to scare off opponents, foreign and domestic. At least 60 human-rights activists have been arrested on the island in the six months since the August coup precipitated the breakup of the Soviet Union, Cuba's principal backer. "The idea," said the council in a statement, "is to stop such loathsome actions from being repeated...
...Palestine Liberation Organization, China finally succumbed to Jerusalem's courtship out of a desire to re-enter the world stage. Beijing wants to dispel the smoke of ostracism that still hangs over it from the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and fill the power vacuum left by the Soviet Union's breakup...