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...doubt that we will bear this pressure. It is a question of who has sovereignty over this land. Does it belong to the people of Lithuania or to some other state?" As for the decree ordering the surrender of firearms, Landsbergis replied, "It can be enforced only through brutal, armed force . . . The ghost of Stalinism is walking in the Kremlin, and the shadow of it lies far to the west" -- over Lithuania...
When Indian peacekeeping forces arrived in Sri Lanka nearly three years ago to try to end a brutal civil war, exultant crowds greeted them with flowers and handshakes. But when the last batch of 2,000 soldiers trooped onto a waiting ship at the eastern port of Trincomalee last week, completing a six- month withdrawal of 70,000 men, not a single civilian showed up to bid them goodbye. If the locals had anything to say to the "peace-keepers," whose presence brought not peace but one of the bloodiest chapters in Sri Lanka's already violent history...
...fighting was a new blow to Romania's provisional government and a brutal reminder of how easily ethnic tensions can explode in Eastern Europe. Freed from the iron rule of the Ceausescu regime, Romania's 2 million ethnic Hungarians (in a total population of 23 million) have begun to campaign for greater autonomy in Transylvania, where most of them live. Their demands have outraged Romanian nationalists. Several clashes, including the savage beating of four local leaders of the Hungarian Democratic Union, led up to the latest hostilities...
Carril did not make it easy for Hill, or anybody else, for that matter. "He can be absolutely brutal sometimes," says Hill, wincing even now. "He would yell 'See this. See that' at me," recalls Hill, who became one of the great floor leaders in the pros, dictating the flow of the game. "In the beginning, I didn't see anything...
Because of its souring relations with the outlying republics, Moscow is wary of intervening. Given the resentments caused by the army's brutal suppression of a peaceful demonstration in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last April, the central government does not dare ask the agitated Georgians to return Turkish villages to the Meskhetians. Moscow has ordered up a plan for repatriating the Crimean Tatars and Volga Germans, but nothing has been done...