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...looked like a strong challenger to Kohl, who was less respected and less popular than his party. Lafontaine, 47, appealed to younger voters as a maverick who ranged wide of the Social Democratic establishment and party orthodoxy. A pacifist, keen on environmental issues and allergic to any invocation of nationalist sentiment, he was touted as the "posthistorical politician." In his campaign, Lafontaine even shunned using the black, red and gold colors of the flag...
Today Hendrik Jr., 50, sits in a modest storefront in the dusty Transvaal farming village of Morgenzon, trying to persuade fellow whites, in essence, to cut their losses and establish their own small homeland. As a leader of an Afrikaner nationalist group called the Orange Workers, he advocates setting up a separate state, provisionally named Afrikanerland, on roughly 13% of South Africa's territory. Of his father's failed dream, Verwoerd shrugs and says, "People lost faith...
...were sporadically dispersed by soldiers wielding batons and tear-gas canisters even as they fortified themselves with makeshift barricades. The government ordered the arrest of the two women who head the main opposition groups -- Sheik Hasina Wazed of the Awami League and Begum Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party -- but the two remained undaunted. As it happens, Hasina is the daughter of a slain former President, and Zia is the widow of another. Vowed Hasina: "Ershad's last days have arrived. We shall not leave the streets until the dictator is removed...
...successful, long-term embargo. And the Security Council decision on Thursday shows how such an embargo could succeed. The council has not voted to authorize the direct use of force in this way since the beginning of the Korean War, when the permanent Chinese seat was occupied by Nationalist China (Taiwan), and the Soviet Union was temporarily boycotting the Council...
...process, what was once one of the world's most tightly centralized states continues to fall apart. In the past few weeks, Kazakhstan in Central Asia became the 14th of the 15 republics to declare its sovereignty. A nationalist alliance calling itself the Round Table won 54% of the vote in parliamentary elections in the republic of Georgia on a platform that opposes signing a new treaty of union with the central government. The Ukrainian government last week began distributing coupons to be used for the purchase of various goods, a step toward introducing its own currency. The Belorussian republic...