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...presidential campaign abruptly transformed the distant saga of suffering into a political question too sharp to ignore: Is it wise for the West -- or is it required of the West -- to intervene with military force in the Balkans? Does the new world order that George Bush espouses encompass a minimal moral code, starting with the command of the Holocaust-inspired international convention on genocide to "prevent and to punish" mass killings of ethnic groups? Or is Secretary of State James Baker right to argue that in Yugoslavia -- and by extension in other bloody ethnic conflicts in countries not central...
...winners of the strike -- if it can be said to have winners -- were the 2.3 million members of the Public Services and Transport Workers' union, one of 16 giant labor combines that encompass most of western Germany's work force. The 5.4% wage hike they squeezed out of the government is, ironically, precisely the amount accepted by the union and rejected by the government when an arbitrator recommended it well before the strike began on April 27. The union's chief weapon was its shrewd, tough-talking president, Monika Wulf- Mathies, who brilliantly calibrated the walkouts to demonstrate the union...
...narrowly approved a plan to split the vast region in two. Once a chain of legal steps is completed, the new 772,000-sq.-mi. territory, to be called Nunavut, will become a national home for the Eskimo -- or Inuit -- of the country's eastern Arctic. It will encompass a huge area of mainland and islands stretching from Manitoba almost to the North Pole that is thought to be rich in oil and minerals...
...better or worse, many experts believe that the battle over what is commonly called multiculturalism is winding down. That is, there is an emerging consensus that every curriculum needs broadening to encompass the cultural experience of women and minorities -- but not at the denigration of D.W.M.s (Dead White Males). Robert Wood, who is Henry Luce professor of Democratic Institutions and the Social Order at Wesleyan University, argues for balance. "In the past five years, we have generally had two counsels on curriculum, and they're both wrong. Allan Bloom ((The Closing of the American Mind)) and others basically...
Both men blame the Russians in general, and the Soviet army and Gorbachev in particular, for allowing and even encouraging the transformation of the Karabakh conflict into a violent war. "Here's perestroika for you," Bagirov scoffs, his hand swooping out to encompass the surrounding soldiers from both sides, every one of them armed with a Kalashnikov rifle. "The Russians gave us weapons, and they gave the Armenians weapons. And they are guilty...