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...thousands of Sikhs around the capital. Their mood worsened as the night wore on, and they beat up several cameramen for no apparent reason. Some chanted slogans blaming the CIA and called for an attack on the U.S. embassy. Others randomly pointed to V.P. Singh one minute, the ultra-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) the next...
A.N.C. leaders charge that white police have failed to prevent or actually fomented Zulu attacks on A.N.C. supporters, allegedly because the ruling Nationalist Party favors Inkatha as a presumably more pliable partner in a postapartheid government. So the supposedly more militant (indeed communist- allied) A.N.C. has been driven into the ironic position of demanding that the white government protect it from its fellow blacks -- starting with a ban on the Zulus' "cultural" weapons. Zulus say tribal tradition requires them to carry the spears, clubs and battle-axes in public, but the A.N.C. charges that they are being used to kill...
...insensitivity to nationalist sentiments and his rejection of the legitimate aspirations of the Soviet republics have aggravated the secessionist tendencies that are now tearing the country apart...
...talks culminate 14 months of intricate diplomacy and are slated to begin by the end of April. They will include three separate, interlocking conferences: one will involve Northern Ireland's mainly Protestant unionist political parties, which want to see the province remain part of Britain, and the principally Catholic nationalist parties, which want Ulster to be part of Ireland. Other talks will be between delegates from Ulster and the Irish Republic, and between Ireland and Britain...
...fulcrum of uncertainty was Milosevic, 49, who rose to power in 1986 on a populist wave of Serbian nationalism and was overwhelmingly confirmed as president -- under the banner of the renamed Socialist Party of Serbia -- in . elections last December. In his efforts to fuel nationalist passions and to silence dissent, Milosevic exercised ironclad control over Serbia's state- owned media, which in turn waged a war of words against secessionist-minded Croatians and Slovenes and the equally nationalistic but more democratic Serbian opposition. On March 9 some 100,000 people crowded into Belgrade's Republic Square to register their opposition...