Word: ethnicities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this delicate juncture, calmer minds on both sides agree that the last thing anyone wants is a violent ethnic clash. Says editor Leito: "We simply cannot permit a split into rival groups as in Ulster or Lebanon." Nonetheless, the tension in Estonia is accompanied by exhilaration over the fact that vital issues are finally being aired. Many Estonians take the optimistic view that as long as there is no upheaval in the streets, the Kremlin will not call the republic to account. Says a Tallinn intellectual: "We are a legal-minded people and are prepared to examine everything in terms...
Although busy with the demands of magazine journalism and with his marriage to Kimba Wood, a federal judge, Kramer has found time to co-write two books: The Ethnic Factor: How America's Minorities Decide Elections and I Never Wanted to Be Vice-President of Anything!, a biography of Nelson Rockefeller. "I've known Michael a long time," says chief of correspondents John Stacks. "He's one of the most energetic, intelligent and assiduous reporters around. He's endlessly curious...
...captured 92 of the parliament's 237 seats, decisively beating the Islamic Democratic Alliance, its nearest competitor and the relic of Zia, who died in a plane crash three months before the vote. The Alliance won only 55 seats. A surge of ethnic support thrust the fledgling Mohajir Qaumi Movement into the third and pivotal position with 13 seats...
...Mikhail Gorbachev has learned since coming to power in 1985, the "unbreakable union" has a few cracks. The 285 million Soviet people form a patchwork of at least 100 ethnic groups in 15 national republics, 20 autonomous republics, eight autonomous regions and ten autonomous areas. Only about 140 million are ethnic Russians -- and a growing number of the remainder are restless...
...December 1986, Kazakh youths rampaged through Alma Ata to protest the appointment of an ethnic Russian as party first secretary of Kazakhstan. In July 1987, Crimean Tatars demanded the right to return to their homeland on the Black Sea, from which they were removed in 1944. Last February, Armenians and Azerbaijanis began to clash over control of Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave south of the Caucasus. And last week in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, the local supreme soviet turned down constitutional amendments proposed by Moscow and voiced new demands for sovereignty. Two days later, the Lithuanian supreme soviet...