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...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...
...needn't worry about anti-Semitism and greater-German nationalism, because they're dead. To many people, this statement is dogma. To others, it's pure untruth. Certainly the Germans have shown virtually no manifestations of a dormant Nazism in the past forty years; in fact, they have gone far to dispel Western suspicions...
...until Schkolnick's complaint was filed in December of 1987, campus activism about the clubs' discrimination was dormant. With that complaint came a new wave of controversy--and a new undergraduate group formed to rally support for Schkolnick and her cause...