Word: czechoslovakia
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...Serbia from the wreckage by encouraging Serb-populated regions of the breakaway republics to resist secession -- and providing the crude military means to do so. Around U.N. headquarters in New York City, some diplomats are reminded of the way Hitler used the supposed need to protect German minorities in Czechoslovakia as an excuse to subjugate those countries...
What if three schools in Maine decided to offer more courses on Eastern Europe? Harvard sociologist David Riesman has a proposal: "I can imagine Colby, Bates and Bowdoin, for example, deciding that one would concentrate on Romania, one on Bulgaria and one on Czechoslovakia. They could have interchangeable programs that all students could use for semesters abroad...
Another world Model U.N. is tentatively planning a meeting in Prague, Czechoslovakia next year, organizers said. Though nothing is yet official, they hope to double the number of participants...
Vladimir Lukin, who is about to become ambassador to Washington, has impeccable reformist credentials: as a young journalist in Czechoslovakia in 1968, he bravely opposed the Soviet invasion. Now he is urging patience on the part of everyone -- Ukrainians, Russians and outsiders. "An enlightened and balanced championship of both Russian and Ukrainian interests," he says, "is the only weapon against Zhirinovsky and the extreme nationalists." Translation: if Yeltsin yields too much, too fast to Kiev, he will be swept away by a coalition of demagogues bent on exploiting the hardships of the citizenry and die-hard believers...
...take top honors, though his stiff finale offered more stumbles than magic. He didn't win the gold medal so much as he didn't lose it. Far more satisfying were the performances of the runners-up. Defying smug expectations, two lyrical skaters -- Paul Wylie of the U.S. and Czechoslovakia's Petr Barna -- claimed the silver and the bronze, respectively...