Word: dormant
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...hardly embrace attacks as diverse as those on black Americans in New York City, North African workers in Italy, Arab immigrants in France, Romanies (Gypsies) in Czechoslovakia, Hungarians in Romania. Very few Jews are left in Central Europe after Hitler's Holocaust, but the anti-Semitism that lay dormant under communist repression has sprung back to life. The best word to describe the whole sickening phenomenon may simply be bigotry...
Behind the announcement of domestic reforms is President Alia's desire to re-establish Albania's long-dormant relations with most of the outside world. Deputy Prime Minister Manush Myftiu told last week's legislative session, for example, that the government wants to join the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Before it could have done that, however, it had to endorse some of CSCE's basic human-rights requirements, including freedom of travel and other civil rights guarantees. Even the United Nations is looking anew at Albania: Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar made his first...
...pinpoint the cause of CFS. The Epstein-Barr virus is active in some, but not all, sufferers, and experts doubt it is the root of the trouble. The illness seems to involve some malfunction of the immune system, perhaps triggered by stress, that can allow any number of normally dormant viruses, including Epstein-Barr, herpes VI and even polio-like pathogens, to become active...
...threat, even if banished from the East, will not come from elsewhere. We simply have no idea where Germany, China, Japan are headed. We don't know how the Balkans will evolve. We do know that with the Soviet decline other forces will occupy the vacuum, among them long- dormant nationalisms and newly awakened Islamic fundamentalism, neither of which is necessarily friendly to American interests or values. We also know that in a high-tech world, dozens of regimes are acquiring weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, biological) and the means to deliver them to almost any place on earth...
Meanwhile, the non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union have had their own reasons for responding enthusiastically to Gorbachev's campaign on behalf of self-reliance and decentralization. The nationalism that had lain largely dormant or been brutally suppressed rose to the surface. In the Caucasus, ethnic hatreds burst into violence. In Azerbaijan, which borders on Iran, the dominant Azerbaijanis, a Muslim, Turkic-speaking people, are embroiled in a blood feud with the Christian Armenians in and around the enclave of Nagorno- Karabakh. The region has been besieged for 20 months, its road traffic and railways under attack by Azerbaijani...