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...principals, doubts that a fourth Indo-Pakistani war would be devastating. Some observers even fear that such a conflict could lead to the first use of nuclear weapons since 1945. India exploded its initial nuclear device in 1974, and Pakistan is widely believed to have a nuclear weapon. The catalyst for this potential catastrophe is the rebellion in the beautiful Vale of Kashmir, an 87-mile-long valley that is home to more than half the state's 7 million people -- 65% of them Muslim. There India faces a bloody insurgency and a runaway mass movement for secession that...
According to Wilson, the growth of scientific knowledge has been the major catalyst of the recent explosion in the environmental movement...
...ejected non-Hispanic principals, leading disgruntled teachers and parents to conclude that race, not competence, was the real reason for dismissal. Language differences have only exacerbated the mounting anger and frustration. "All members of the council should speak Spanish and English," one member of a predominantly Hispanic council told Catalyst, a publication that is monitoring Chicago's decentralization efforts...
Many Catholics see the election of Pope John Paul II and his support of Solidarity as the catalyst that gave Poles and other Eastern Bloc peoples the moral stamina to carry on the struggle. The persecuted religious leaders of the East Bloc certainly helped keep their people from despair. Indeed, the rejuvenation of organized religion in the formally atheist nations of the communist bloc foreshadowed the larger defiance of general strikes and mass protests...
...away, just as they did Egon Krenz and Karoly Grosz and Milos Jakes. But no matter what happens next in the great Eurasian land mass where 1.8 billion people live under communism -- and no matter what happens to Gorbachev himself -- he has established his place in history as the catalyst of a new European reality. "Any nation has the right to decide its fate by itself," he said last month in a parliamentary statement on events in Eastern Europe. It is one thing for the most powerful communist on earth to speak those words. It is momentous when...