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VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY--the far-right Russian nationalist whose novel approach to his country's declining birth rate was a suggestion that he personally sire children in different parts of the nation--doesn't hold with remarks impugning his morality. During an appearance with Zhirinovsky on a live talk show, rival politician BORIS NEMTSOV suggested that the extremist had contracted syphilis from the 200 women he told Playboy he'd slept with. "We can cure you," said Nemtsov. "We have two simple injections." In reply, Zhirinovsky threw juice at Nemtsov. Nemtsov threw juice back. The scuffle escalated, and after the show...
...churning, yearning hip-hop rhythms accentuated by grungy guitar riffs. On the track Pumpkin, Tricky recycles guitar licks from the alternative-rock band Smashing Pumpkins and inserts them into a haunting aria. On Black Steel he employs a female vocalist, Martine, to cover a song by the black-nationalist rap group Public Enemy...
...mainland communists, Taiwan's simple existence as an offshore rival under the rule of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist heirs is an open rebuke of their legitimacy and a thumb in their eye -- even as they pursue detente with the island's regime and ardently court Taiwan investment and trade. China's leaders are wondering whether Clinton was signaling both a reversal of 23 years of Sino-American rapprochement and a precedent for other countries, including Japan, to follow. A Western diplomat in Beijing remarked, "I think what is of concern to them is less the specific development than...
...Teng-hui, who has been invited to address an alumni reunion at Cornell's Ithaca, N.Y. campus, in June, would be the first leader of Taiwan to visit the U.S. since 1979, when Washington recognized Beijing as the sole government of China. (China regards Taiwan, the seat of the Nationalist Chinese who fled the communist takeover of the Chinese mainland in 1949, as a renegade province.) The State Department has been loath toupset its delicate China policyin hope that gradual pressure will persuade Beijing to moderate its trade and human rights policies. But they said recent outcries from Capitol Hill...
...more directly: "My world is blacker-and better. The tension has gone out of our lives." Now at national gatherings, A.N.C. leaders can be heard singing the Boers' beloved Die Stem (The Call), while at rugby matches, thick-necked Afrikaans players stand at attention for the black liberation and nationalist hymn Nkosi Sikelel i Afrika (God Bless Africa...