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...provide a boost for Islamic movements elsewhere. The prospect that haunts is a militant tide that topples unpopular regimes and replaces them with fundamentalist theocracies. Some leaders are beginning to recognize that the most effective safeguard against radical fundamentalism -- or any other dogmatism -- may be to garner the consent of the governed. Among the countries that have taken tentative steps toward such reforms...
Landsbergis said he would "carefully study" the letter, but he could hardly fail to read it as support for President Mikhail Gorbachev's demands that the Baltic republic consent to an orderly secession by Moscow's rules. Landsbergis had already been stung by George Bush's decision not to impose economic sanctions on the Soviet Union -- a decision the Lithuanian leader likened to the appeasement of Hitler at the 1938 Munich conference. The comparison was farfetched, since Bush was counseling Lithuania to take a less confrontational course toward independence, not to surrender to a predatory totalitarian...
...with history. | It has instead to do with democracy, with a new principle of international relations or, rather, an old one that has been revived: the principle of democratic legitimacy. The Lithuanians are right to do what they did because it was an elected government, created by consent of the governed, that decided in the name of the people to secede. It is the democratic origin of that decision, not its historical antecedents, that makes it right...
...American press as a special situation. Hiding the victim's name, the argument went, protected her from the secondary trauma of exposure to prurient public attention. Journalistic policy elsewhere varies. The Code of Practice, drawn up by Britain's Press Council, prohibits newspapers from naming rape victims without their consent. In France, on the contrary, adult rape victims are usually named. In the U.S. three states have confidentiality laws that protect the identity of rape victims. But these are in limbo, largely because of the 1989 Supreme Court ruling in Florida Star v. B.J.F. The court overturned...
When the Supreme Court last summer ruled that states could restrict abortions, all-out political warfare broke out. Both pro-life and pro-choice forces have since won victories: Michigan, Minnesota and Florida declined to enact new strictures on abortion; South Carolina began requiring parental or judicial consent for minors; Pennsylvania outlawed abortion for parents unhappy with the sex of the fetus. Last week abortion foes scored their greatest success yet when Idaho's senate passed the toughest abortion measure in any state...