Word: noncommunists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ethnic groups since World War II have been unraveling for years. Since 1981, the 1.7 million Albanians in the Serbian-controlled province of Kosovo have been agitating for separate status. Last spring and summer the relatively prosperous northern republics of Slovenia and Croatia voted in free elections to install noncommunist, Western-oriented governments, while Serbia, the largest republic, chose to retain its communist government -- lately renamed socialist -- under hard-line President Slobodan Milosevic. Those divisive events were followed by a landslide referendum in which 88% of Slovenia's 2.1 million citizens voted for independence from Belgrade. Since then, the federal...
...especially tense and there is a serious threat to the state and to people's well-being." That might have been the trigger for Shevardnadze's resignation. One of the first targets could be his home republic of Georgia, where ethnic animosities are boiling high and a newly elected noncommunist, nationalist government appears to be on a collision course with the central government...
...call for a Supreme National Council along the lines Hun Sen prefers. But it is unclear whether this was really a split with his Khmer Rouge allies or a ploy aimed at persuading an increasingly shaky U.S. Congress to continue providing nonlethal aid to the noncommunist members of the rebel coalition. Sihanouk is as hard to pin down as a ball of mercury. If he began to lead again, he might make a difference. But he's 67 years old. The world will soon pass him by, if it has not already. The odds are that he will...
...dispatch a military force of 10,000 and another 10,000 civilians to oversee free elections in the strife-torn nation. The U.N. would also supervise creation of a supreme national council to serve as an interim administration. It would comprise representatives of the two noncommunist resistance groups, the communist Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese-backed government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, all of which say they endorse the plan...
...Khmer Rouge. "As long as they get whatever they want from China, they will see no reason to go from the battlefield to elections," says a congressional staffer. "They aren't going to throw in the towel just because they lost their seat in the U.N." The noncommunist resistance also sounds determined to carry on. From his residence in North Korea, Sihanouk branded the U.S. decision "an act of very serious injustice" and vowed to continue the fight...