Word: communisme
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Sadly, the ancient hatred of Gypsies for their supposed deviousness has revived since communism collapsed in Eastern Europe. In Romania and the Czech Republic, mobs have burned Gypsies' homes and beaten their occupants, sometimes to death. Police and legal authorities have generally condoned these atrocities. In desperation, thousands of East European Gypsies--500,000 in 1991 alone--have applied for asylum in the West. Rather than accept repatriation after a 1992 pact between Germany and Romania, Romanian Gypsies in German relocation camps destroyed their identity cards. They were deported anyway...
...Russia and are hardly secure. An authoritarian himself, Yeltsin can take some of the blame for their fragility. Asked how history will judge Yeltsin, Stephen Foye of the Center for Strategic and International Studies says, "On the one hand, Yeltsin will be remembered as the destroyer of communism, an inspirational leader. On the other, as a leader who failed to create the necessary institutions in his new Russian state." Still, Yeltsin's death or his political impotence would create a vacuum that would pose a further threat to Russian democracy...
This rebirth in morality will replace the politics of this century, which are already winding down around us. The great ideological struggle between individual freedom and communism is over. Paralleling this domestically, the great social movements of the century are equally worn out: notably the great civil rights and feminist movements, which lost much of their moral force as a result of their own successes in the 1960s...
...unnecessary costs, and those who fail to predict this aspect of his or her personality would be terribly wrong. There are ample examples the earliest one dating back to the Korean War in 1950, when a newly founded and poorly-equipped China fearlessly fought against America to prove communism as the ultimate source of determination and will-power...
...Russia, taking questions in Moscow's White House on topics ranging from the extent of government corruption to his relationship with Boris Yeltsin. And Do Muoi, Vietnam's Communist Party chief, asking for more foreign investment and affirming that it would be just fine if the path to pure communism first made the Vietnamese rich. Last week these leaders and others around the world agreed to an unusual experience: a prolonged, unscripted press conference that is part of a unique institution in American journalism, the TIME Newstour...