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...ministates, proclaimed by ethnic Russians and Ukrainians seceding from a secession. Its citizens refused to stay in the new nation of Moldova (pop. 4.4 million), a former Soviet republic that broke away from Moscow last August, because the majority ethnic Romanians were making noises about uniting with their brethren across the border...
Thomas' father Kerby (a former minister for the Church of the Brethren who quit to become a gardener) and mother Linda (a hospital unit secretary who grew up on an Ohio pig farm) are white. His brother and sister are Black. His other brother is Iranian. And in 1980--about the same time Mount St. Helens erupted, Thomas says with a grin--Kerby ran away with a gay lover. Today, Kerby and Linda are best friends, living a few blocks apart in Portland, Ore. Every now and then, they tell their story on a TV talk show...
...national argument. Several major unions, including the 4 million-member I.G. Metall, Germany's largest industrial labor organization, began staging warning strikes. Like the public employees, metalworkers are opening with a demand for a 9.5% raise. And in eastern Germany, where unions have not yet integrated with their western brethren and earnings are about 40% less, workers are considering strikes for pay increases that would bring them closer to levels in the west...
Nationalistic fervor, once quiescent among Israeli Arabs, has grown steadily since Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 war. That put the Arabs in direct contact with their Palestinian brethren in the territories. With the start of the intifadeh in 1987, Israeli Arabs, in limited numbers, began to throw stones and Molotov cocktails at Jews, to fly the banned Palestinian flag and to paint radical slogans on town walls...
...course there were exceptions to the general pattern: the poor Canadian who came on a scholarship, and the occasional Jew. But the Saltonstalls and Greenoughs and their brethren predominated...