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...slowing the painful process of reform. The government of President Vytautas Landsbergis, who courageously led the resistance to the bloody Soviet army crackdown in January 1990, was unable to translate the skills of revolt into running a country. Politics has shifted in the opposite direction in Estonia, where the nationalist Fatherland coalition has taken power with a pledge to "clean house" -- code words for removing all former communists from office...
...Avila the real thing? Officially, both Washington and Havana are mum, although Avila's involvement with Miami's Alpha 66 paramilitary group was long known to the FBI. He claims Castro covertly funded some exile raids on Cuba to build nationalist fervor at home and embarrass Washington. The red faces were most obvious, however, in Miami, where rabid anti-Castro militants like Alpha 66 and Commandos L denied that they had been infiltrated or financed by the enemy...
Professors too easily reduce the movement's entire Black nationalist strain to a single person. This person is then dissembled into a single phrase ("By any means necessary") and finally into a letter...
Angela Davis, for example, has fastened on the feminist implications of Malcolm X's thought, hypothesizing a feminist activism that draws on the uncompromising spirit of the Black nationalist leader. "I have a fantasy," she writes. "I sometimes daydream about masses of Black men in front of the Supreme Court chanting...'Protect women's reproductive rights by any means necessary...
...failing economy, Lithuanians handed their former Communist leaders a surprise victory in the first parliamentary election for the tiny Baltic nation since it won independence last year. The conquest of the newly formed Democratic Labor Party, headed by moderate ex-Communist Algirdas Brazauskas, dealt a bitter blow to the nationalist Sajudis party, which had heroically spearheaded Lithuania's break with Moscow and hastily set off on a path of economic reform. Brazauskas has promised to slow the pace of change and improve relations with Russia...