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Saddam Hussein and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, two of the world's least-understood leaders, have come together at last. Zhirinovsky, the tough-talking Russian nationalist with an eye on the Kremlin in 1996, wrapped up a four-day visit to Baghdad by urging an end to the international oil embargo against Iraq, which happens to owe Russia $7 billion...
...Fugui and Cheungsheng search for their adopted Nationalist Army, they hear something in the distance. It builds into a roar, and their fear is tangible, Suddenly, tens of thousands of communist soldiers storm down the hill after them. Fugui and Chungsheng run, but it is futile. Like a stream of lava overtaking them, Mao's forces surround Fugui and Cheungsheng. This scene immediately distinguishes "To Live" from any other film in recent memory. It is the work of a craftsman with a lot of money to spend. It is the stuff that makes movies larger than life...
...Roncalli was an Italian. But both men, as instinctive regionalists, have repudiated modern nationalism and have tended to see Europe as an amalgam of historic regions -- a microcosm of a world of peoples rather than of nations. A regionalist finds it much easier to develop true internationalism than a nationalist, and this is one reason why both men were at ease as head of a global organization, speaking urbi et orbi -- to the city and to the world...
Nonetheless, the tensions are real and not to be dismissed as mere mouthings by Yeltsin to appeal to nationalist sentiment at home. The very fact that Washington bashing is increasingly popular will make it tempting for Yeltsin to do more and more of it -- especially since his prospects of being re- elected in 1996 currently seem as shaky as Clinton's. In one recent poll, Russians were asked whether they would rather live in the "state system" headed by Yeltsin or in the one ruled by the late Leonid Brezhnev, whose leadership of the Soviet Union was long derided...
...letter, written by Bosco, who is associate editorial chair of The Crimson, expresses concern over the U.N.'s role as an impartial observer of Serbian nationalist crimes against humanity...