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...apartment on the southern outskirts of Phnom Penh. They wore black pajamas and sandals made of tires, and had branches tied to their backs as camouflage. All carried AK-47s. It was the morning of April 17, 1975. % After five years of war, the Communist rebels were on the brink of victory. As the government's remaining defenses collapsed, more and more guerrillas poured past Seng's residence into the capital. By midafternoon the war was over, and people were celebrating in the streets...
Anyone who can master the juggling act between intercollegiate athletics and rigorous academics at Harvard has earned my respect. As a member of a varsity team, and as a student on the brink of committing myself to a joint concentration, I understand the additional pressures and the overwhelming time commitments that a student-athlete faces daily...
...imprisoned peoples are battering the outside walls and intend to leap to freedom. It now seems certain that the center cannot hold onto all 15 republics. What was unthinkable only a few months ago has now become reality: the largest country in the world is on the brink of shrinking. Politics in the U.S.S.R. has turned into a race between the republics trying to break out and Gorbachev with his determination to build new fences and structures to keep them...
Such fears buttress suspicions among non-Muslim Soviets elsewhere that their country, tied with Turkey as the fifth largest Muslim community in the world (after Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India), is in fact on the brink of the Islamic conflagration that commentator Belyaev feared. Those suspicions are unfair to the vast majority of Soviet Muslims, who may be nationalistic but do not embrace any brand of vengeful fundamentalism. As Ilios Ibragimov, a Tadzhik truck driver in Dushanbe, put it, "Those people who caused the damage and looted, they were fools, bad people." The question is whether Mikhail Gorbachev will also...
SPECIAL SECTION: The Soviet Union teeters on the brink of disintegration as republics revolt against the center How Gorbachev moves to save his crumbling empire will affect not only his country but also the world. ^ A chorus of complaints from around the union. > A resurgence of both Russian nationalism and Islamic fervor inspires worries about communal discord. ^ Why a Soviet historian believes the empire should collapse...