Word: nazis
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...1920s de facto apartheid was a feature of South African life. The poorest whites possessed something that the most prosperous blacks could never have: the vote. Subsequent governments flirted with Nazi Germany, then embraced liberal policies, but the racism endured. With all the warm pronunciations of President F.W. de Klerk, it prevails even amid the current talk of reforms...
...Baltic republics present a special dilemma for Gorbachev, since they enjoyed independence between the two World Wars, before being consigned to Moscow by the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 -- an accord the Kremlin has belatedly admitted was unjust. Thus, Lithuania, as well as Estonia and Latvia, claims it has been occupied by the U.S.S.R. for the past 50 years. Gorbachev's saber rattling aside, there is every indication he believes the three republics have the right to secede, though only after Moscow has agreed to the terms of the separation. He reiterated the point last week at a meeting with...
Even if their heads tell the French that Germany has changed, the carnage of World War I followed by the humiliating defeat and Nazi occupation of World War II has not been erased from their hearts. "The French are deeply insecure," says Dominique Moisi, associate director of the Institute for International Relations in Paris. "The Germans are asserting themselves, and we are growing fearful. Our fears may not be well founded, but we have them nonetheless, and a fearful people will not always distinguish carefully between myth and reality." Recent polls nevertheless show that large majorities in most Western countries...
...authority on ethical issues in medicine, "but we would be too easily led into involuntary euthanasia -- either manipulating people into asking for suicide or actually doing it to them without their permission because they have become too burdensome or costly." The haunting precedent, of course, is the Nazi Holocaust, during which the chronically ill, then the socially unacceptable, and finally all non-Germans were viewed as expendable. In his stark essay "The Humane / Holocaust," Christian author Malcolm Muggeridge notes that "it took no more than three decades to transform a war crime into an act of compassion...
...past 15 months Katerli has been in court fighting charges that she defamed local Patriot society leader Alexander Romanenko by comparing passages in his book The Class Character of Zionism with Nazi writings. In her view, the official propaganda campaign against "Zionist racism" has been a form of sanctioned anti-Semitism. Now that glasnost is flourishing, she is worried about more virulent forms of prejudice as Russian nationalists seek a scapegoat to blame for seven decades of Communist misrule...