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...party last February, along with the rest of South Africa's outlawed political organizations. Longtime party leader Joe Slovo returned in triumph from exile in April and scheduled a huge welcome-back rally in Soweto this week. Since the communists have long been a powerful part of the black nationalist movement, Slovo was named to the five-man A.N.C. delegation slated to meet with De Klerk this week...
...Ukrainian nationalist movement needed a Betsy Ross, it certainly found one in Orest Kaledin. On a stroll through Lvov (pop. 860,000), the largest city in the Western Ukraine, the biologist turned flagmaker points to five new yellow-and-blue national banners flapping from the town hall. They are his and his wife's handiwork, says Kaledin with pride. He dreams of designing uniforms and ensigns for a revived Ukrainian army. Pointing out a friend on the street -- a scrawny person of decidedly unmilitary bearing -- he explains confidentially that the young man is destined to become "one of our generals...
...Nationalist fervor is most intense in the Western Ukraine, in territories largely annexed -- along with the Baltic states -- by the Soviet Union under the terms of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In republican elections last March, supporters of the Rukh movement, an umbrella organization for a host of proindependence groups, won a landslide victory in the western section. The radicals did not win a majority of seats in the republic's parliament, but their bloc of more than 100 is sizable enough to prevent the government in Kiev from getting a quorum on key votes...
...white asparagus and ham, a seasonal delicacy. But the seven men, immersed in conversation, pay scant attention to either setting or food. The discussion, about something that happened four decades ago, still rivets their attention: Was one of their teachers then an apologist for Nazism or merely an outspoken nationalist...
...Soviet Union, and Raisa Gorbachev is reportedly one of his fans. He rails against the decline of "human values," and as an outspoken supporter of the nascent Green environmental movement, he is active in the campaign to save the purity of Lake Baikal. In light of his anti-Western, nationalist and anti-Semitic views, his appointment to the Presidential Council surprised many. Though Rasputin is not a member of the Communist Party, Gorbachev may view him as a communications link to an important segment of the population...