Word: conflict
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Russia was facing the threat of civil conflict, and ominous signs of disintegration were showing up in the provinces. It looked as if President Boris Yeltsin would once again put forward his choice for Prime Minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin--and parliament for a third time would reject him. That would mean dissolution of the Duma and new elections, as banks continued to fail and the ruble plunged. But the communists in parliament warned that if Yeltsin ordered them to leave, they would not go. They started up the machinery to impeach the President. Key military and security units around Moscow were...
Maybe we do live in an age of miracles. Here's one: after a 40-year conflict that held the entire world in a state of terror about the possibility of nuclear annihilation, the U.S. and the former Soviet Union reconciled peacefully. And here's another: a commercial American television network has produced a 24-part series about this epoch that is serious, thorough and absorbing. CNN's Cold War, which debuts Sept. 27, serves as an example of documentary television at its best. Watching it, one begins to understand how the stamina of the U.S., the self-deception...
...vice chairman of Time Warner, the parent company of CNN and TIME), was in Russia attending the Goodwill Games, another of his enterprises, he had a revelation. "It just hit me," he says, "that the cold war really was over and the world needed a documentary record of this conflict." A great admirer of The World at War, the classic syndicated series about World War II, Turner sought out its producer, Jeremy Isaacs, a prominent figure in British television. Four years and $12 million after the two first met, the collaboration has resulted in a production that is almost unique...
...Mandela's been criticized for interacting with people considered pariahs: Syria, Libya, etc., and I'm interested in hearing his views about past loyalties in conflict with current loyalties," Mwangi said...
...outbreak of violence is already having repercussions outside Albania's borders. Italy and Greece fear the turmoil will create a new influx of refugees, while NATO is concerned over the effect on its efforts to stabilize the conflict between ethnic Albanians and the Serb authorities in neighboring Kosovo. "The last thing the West needs now is for Albania to slip further into chaos, just as [the West's] hard-hearted policy in Kosovo appears to be containing that situation," says Calabresi. But there's little cause for optimism when opposition politics is conducted with machine guns and tanks...