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...light, hit another car and then jumped a curb, crushing a young Black boy. Later that same key, in a different part of Crown Heights, about 20 Black youths approached a Jewish scholar and stabbed him to death. These two incidents brought Crown Heights to the brink of disintegration...
...They have been worming their way into key positions in President Boris Yeltsin's administration and are beginning to bend policy toward continued, or even increased, state control of the economy. Crows Arkady Volsky, head of the anti-Yeltsin faction: "The policies of the reformist government are on the brink of collapse...
...cold war could unleash ethnic hatreds in Europe, especially in Yugoslavia. He was criticized for having cold war nostalgia, but his fears have been justified. The U.S. mostly kept out of the mounting Yugoslav crisis until Baker visited Belgrade in June 1991, when the country was on the brink of dissolution. Baker and Eagleburger agreed that the federal government should be bolstered as the only force able to manage an orderly transition into freer statelets. But that government, which became a hollow creature of Serbian expansion, did nothing to stop the country's breakup...
Even though Greece and Turkey are both members of NATO, they have bickered constantly over airspace, territorial waters and the continental shelf, sometimes coming to the brink of war. Both long ago became adept at playing Moscow and Washington against each other: the Kremlin used the Cyprus imbroglio to try to weaken the Western alliance and to make all kinds of mischief in the eastern Mediterranean, from conducting espionage to sponsoring terrorism...
...unlikely trio that brought Bill back from the brink...