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...just before Christmas last year: students had rioted in Alma-Ata, the capital of the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, during the previous day and night. Cars and a food store were burned, TASS said, and townspeople had been "insulted." Never before had the Soviets, who blamed the protests on "nationalist elements," reported such violence so frankly and promptly. The revelation was seen as another sign of Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign for glasnost, or openness. Still, Western journalists have long been barred from Alma-Ata -- until last week. Flying to the city with eleven other reporters, TIME Moscow Bureau Chief James...
...Kremlin regime that rules over a vast patchwork of nearly 100 nationalities, ranging from the European-minded Lithuanians to the Asian-oriented Kazakhs, who are of predominantly Muslim heritage. The Soviet Union is held together by a ramshackle, Russian-dominated central bureaucracy that is ever fearful that nationalist outbreaks could spread. Moscow was therefore quick to punish not only those who participated in the riots but the officials who failed to prevent them...
...summer of 1961, Reed and the Star's editor co-hosted a controversial radio roundtable which presented political opinions and personalities even further left than the civil rights activists. The radio station cancelled the program after Reed interviewed Malcolm X, the leader of Nation of Islam, the Black nationalist movement...
Amerika's sexual innuendo and Dukes of Hazard pace will attract plenty of attention to its rabidly nationalist message. The show certainly didn't go looking for the threat of a U.N. law suit to attract even more attention. The U.N. was happy to provide the threat of a law suit--and probably a Nielson boost--anyway...
Speaking to the Associated Press, Vilakazi said that the $159 million divestment wouldn't bring about any noticeable change in South Africa. "But the announcement itself adds to the climate and helps achieve the goal of isolating South Africa," said the U.S. spokesman for the outlawed Black nationalist group...