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According to Indian nationalist groups like the American Indian Movement (AIM), team names like "Braves" or "Indians," let alone the overtly bigoted "Redskins," degrade Native peoples to the status of mascots. They say using sacred symbols as team logos, such as the feathered headdress, is an act of "cultural appropriation" and indicates a failure to take Indian religions seriously...
Fate can be fickle. Georgian leader Zviad Gamsakhurdia made history eight months ago when he became the first person to win the presidency of a Soviet republic by popular election. It was a stunning triumph for the anticommunist nationalist, who had been at the forefront of Georgia's campaign to gain independence from Moscow. Gamsakhurdia's lead at the polls was so commanding -- he had 87% of the vote -- that few doubted his hold on power. Last week he made history again, this time in an ignominious way: he became the first elected President of a former Soviet republic...
...Panama, the promised elections have still not been held, and when they are, the aristocrats led by Endara are sure to win. Noriega's political machine still exists, under new management, and with the same constituency, a constituency that doesn't want its leaders, but is nationalist enough to want to die rather than live under continued American occupation. Drug money still pours through the banks and keeps the place running on a shoestring. If not to prevent violence and totalitarianism, what were these wars...
Across the Continent, nationalist groups are peddling raw hatred...
...Romania several extreme nationalist parties blame ethnic minorities ( -- Hungarians, Jews and gypsies -- for the country's severe economic troubles. Though these parties do not yet exercise any real power, President Ion Iliescu has felt obliged to court their support...