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...Stanislav Shatalin, a member of the group of Gorbachev advisers who make up the Presidential Council. The decision to join forces with Yeltsin was a masterstroke. By siding with the maverick Russian leader, who enjoys widespread popular support, Gorbachev improved his chances of pushing through reforms in an increasingly fractious country...
...June balloting the U.D.F. had won only 144 seats, compared with the Socialists' 211. But Zhelev, 55, a philosopher turned politician and longtime anticommunist, managed to hold his own fractious movement together at a time when the rifts in the Socialist Party were growing wider daily. In the end, he won the presidency with the help of votes from reformers within the Socialist Party. The new President will have the power to call fresh parliamentary elections...
...Brazil's fractious Congress has moved quickly to capitalize on the slippage in public enthusiasm. In July it approved an inflationary wage-indexation program that calls for monthly upward adjustments of salaries. The President, whose tiny National Reconstruction Party has only a handful of congressional seats, has vowed to veto the bill, a move certain to be unpopular. To avoid a backlash at the polls two months from now in congressional elections, the government will offer low-income workers a onetime wage bonus. Following through on the rest of his program will depend heavily on the returns from those elections...
Neither centuries under Turkish and Austro-Hungarian domination nor more than four decades of communist rule have obliterated the ethnic passions that made the Balkans a synonym for fractious politics. Now, with the communist world crumbling, new instability may follow the glum quiet of the Pax Sovietica. The peril exists side by side with the opportunity for healthy change, but the current political ferment of Eastern Europe is an inherently volatile mix in which old demons -- belligerent nationalism and demagogic populism -- could win out as easily as liberal democracy...
...WORLD: A fractious party congress opens...