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...right? Is the federation of different peoples into superpolitical structures the wave of the future? Or is the breakup of such polyglot structures as the Soviet Union into their ethnic elements the norm...
Despite Milosevic's nationalism, few Serbs favor independence for their republic. Svetozar Stojanovic, a politics professor at the University of Belgrade, suggests that practical economics might discourage a total breakup of the federal state. He argues that the economies of the republics complement one another, an advantage that would be lost if all went their own way, and that separation would leave the question of the country's $16 billion foreign debt unresolved, discouraging any new foreign investment. Says Serbian economics professor Ljubisa Adamovic: "When they finally work out the costs of going it alone, they may be less anxious...
Yugoslavia's poorer, heavily subsidized southern republics, Macedonia and Montenegro, are far less enthusiastic about a breakup. They may yet join Serbia in resisting such a move, or enlist in a new political grouping with Belgrade as its base. Further disintegration could also lead to aggressive new moves by Serbia, which has said repeatedly that in the event of the federation's breakup, it will redraw its borders. That would probably mean an attempt to annex Kosovo and a struggle with Croatia over the future of the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where 33% of the people are Serbs...
...breakup of the old partnerships between Western oil companies and the producing countries led to a chaotic era in the late 1970s and early 1980s of free-swinging prices set almost purely by market forces. But in the past few years the oil industry has been seeking new collaborations to restore some stability to both supply and demand. Explains Saudi Oil Minister Hisham Nazer: "We have become an integral part of the oil market of the U.S.A., and the return on our investment depends on the health of that market. This is a mutual benefit...
Randall's fate is that he is seldom more than a wobbly focus of contention around which Miller examines the enigmas of matrimonial and blood ties. The breakup of the Eberhardt marriage and the difficulties of the children as they come of age in the counterculture 1960s and self-absorbed '70s are plausible with or without the issue of autism. In fact, when Miller is at her most perceptive and sympathetic, Randall, Bettelheim and Freud seem incidental baggage to this otherwise affecting family novel about changing values and resilient affections...