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That demand came in a blitz of initiatives. Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters banned the Nationalist Front, a 130-member radical group with no apparent connection to Molln but a bent for terror, and set his sights on other right- wing extremists. Police raided 51 houses across the country in one day, uncovering caches of weapons and propaganda. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's denunciation of the murders, unlike many of his earlier comments on violence, ^ bore a note of genuine concern: "What has appeared here is an act of brutality that for every humane sensibility is incomprehensible...
...found themselves citizens of neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. What little political organization the Somalis had collapsed, and the Europeans replaced it with Western centralized governments that brought the nomads their first schools, police and courts. But the colonialists also gave the Somalis a common threat to rally against. The nationalist Somali Youth League gained strength by stressing clan unity and encouraging territorial reunification...
...Conference of People's Deputies currently underway in Moscow will determine whether the present government will survive unscathed, emerge strengthened or fold under nationalist pressures from the Russian deputies, Mozhin said...
...Soldiers of the former Soviet army remain in all three countries, despite sporadic negotiations for withdrawal. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, faced with nationalist and economic pressures of his own, halted troop departures to punish Latvia and Estonia for what he termed "blatant discrimination" against ethnic Russians. Watching the political turmoil in Moscow, Baltic leaders are plagued by the fear that a coup could lead hard-liners to use the troops to retake the former republics by force...
Furthest on the fringe is Pamyat, a rabidly nationalist, anti-Semitic group espousing a return to the czarist monarchy and unabashedly proud of its fascist symbolism. Its members blame most of the country's ills on "people of alien ethnic origin," and refuse to ally themselves with any communists. Declares Pamyat president Dmitri Vasiliev: "No democratic, no communist system or any other ism will be able to stop this irresistible drive toward purification and freedom...