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...Then the gulf war sparked a fresh burst of anti-Western sentiment. If the fundamentalists ever come to power, they vow to outlaw alcohol, segregate the sexes and impose Shari'a, creating a society dramatically different from the socialist state built more than three decades ago by nationalist revolutionaries...
...Bush motorcade arrived in Kiev, the streets were crowded with nationalist spectators, many of them waving the blue-and-yellow flag of the once independent Ukrainian state. But he made it clear that the U.S. would not intervene in the disputes between the republics and Gorbachev's central government. "We will not try to pick winners and losers in political competitions between republics, or between republics and the center," said the President. "((That)) is your business, not the business...
...except those of their own choice. However, if there is a problem there and it can be overcome only by providing an umbrella of a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, then we will do that based on talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization and with the Palestinians. A real Palestinian nationalist in my book is somebody who is hanging on to his land, and has been enduring hardship for years and years, much more so than somebody who is sitting outside the occupied territories pontificating about nationalist matters from a position of comfort...
...Yugoslav People's Army has mobilized a reported 200,000 reservists, most of them Serbs, and beefed up its strength at bases along Croatia's eastern border in an effort to preserve national unity. In response, the republic's nationalist leader, Franjo Tudjman, warned, "If our efforts for peace bear no fruit, the whole population will rise...
...that's not the way the future looks from here. From Communists to formerly persecuted members of the nationalist Rukh (Movement) to founders of the new Party of Democratic Renaissance, from Ukrainian chauvinists to representatives of the ethnic Russians, who make up 20% of the population, the people I've met in Kiev seem every bit as determined as those in Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius to break with Moscow. If they succeed, their country would be one of the largest in Europe. However, their rhetoric is quieter and their strategy less confrontational than the Balts...