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...West. Amid intensified maneuvering to succeed ailing senior leader Deng Xiaoping, the conservatives have gained influence in the top echelons of government. Last May, President Jiang Zemin told the Politburo, in reference to U.S. human- rights pressures, that "we will not yield to hegemonism and power politics. For the motherland's sovereignty, independence and dignity, we are ready to pay a price." At the same time, uncertainty about the succession has begun to paralyze the Chinese bureaucracy vis-a-vis such sensitive issues as the negotiations on political organization in Hong Kong after the Chinese takeover in 1997. Says...
...unknown proves that history, of which the Holy Land has a surfeit, at long last is losing its death grip on them. For nearly 100 years, Jews and Arabs have been like Jacob and Esau, battling in the womb for the rights of the firstborn in their ancient motherland. The accommodation they announced last week, though still very rough and capable of igniting bonfires of violence among opponents of compromise, had one transcendent merit. A deal negotiated in secret by foes who had chosen to meet face to face signaled that they could lay aside their perpetual sense of victimhood...
...sister's comrade, who lost an arm at the front, gave the eulogy," the man continues as Artyom starts up Prospekt Mira, a broad avenue leading away from downtown. "She reminisced about fighting to save the Soviet motherland. She sounded so old-fashioned; people stared at her like she was a dinosaur. But she couldn't help herself. She still believes...
...sales of manufactured products to what it envisions as a vast market in China. But things will not work out quite that way. Communism will collapse in China, clearing the way for the powerhouse of Taiwan to join Hong Kong as a special economic zone of the Chinese motherland...
Leningrad-born Anatol Ugorski has emerged from the eclipse of his motherland's shadow. He has signed his first recording with Deutsche Grammophon, recording works by Beethoven (Diabelli Variations), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition), and Stravinsky (Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka...