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...Estonians contend that, technically speaking, they are not seceding. They are simply restoring the sovereignty that Moscow guaranteed them "unconditionally and for all time" in 1920 -- then violated under the terms of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which led to Stalin's annexation of the Baltics. Estonian legislators want the issue of independence placed on the agenda for a Helsinki conference that Gorbachev has proposed to lay the foundation for his much touted "common European home." Legalists in Tallinn cite the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, which guaranteed the country's neutrality in exchange for the withdrawal of Soviet troops...
After police raided the gang's headquarters, seizing weapons and arresting four 5th Streeters, the nightmare began. A Molotov cocktail cracked Rodriguez's bedroom window; gang members marauded nightly through the * neighborhood; a suspect's father and his cronies camped out on Rodriguez's doorstep, screaming death threats. Squad cars always seemed to arrive after the tormentors had left. Rodriguez moved his children to the bedroom floor and pushed furniture against the windows. To protect his living room, he parked the family truck in the front yard and took up sentry duty by the front door...
...splintered among nearly 100 other ethnic groups. The non- Russians best known in the West are the Baltic peoples -- Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians -- who are noisily resisting Moscow's domination. The three independent republics were forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, following the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. For 50 years the U.S. has said Soviet rule in the Baltic republics is illegitimate...
Moldavia too was forcibly incorporated in the U.S.S.R. after the Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact. Ethnically, linguistically and historically, Moldavia is part of Rumania, and some Moldavians now talk of reunification. Despite the justice of such an aspiration, achieving it would set the dangerous precedent of changing Europe's postwar borders. Hungarians, Poles, Germans and others all have potential territorial claims against their neighbors. The result of an epidemic of irredentism might be not merely political chaos but even...
Back in 1987, few thought the revolt would last long enough to mark a first anniversary, let alone a second. Israeli leaders insisted the rebellion would be quickly crushed. But a second year without a settlement pays credit to the Palestinians' remarkable endurance and ingenuity. Armed with stones and Molotov cocktails, Arab youths have managed to confound the Israeli army, regain their tattered pride, and remind the world that Israel's "enlightened" occupation is a painful contradiction in terms. Yet many Palestinians fear their revolution has stalled. Mass demonstrations have given way to smaller skirmishes waged by a hard-core...