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...Russia, Gaffney finds himself haunted by Washington's "eerie silence" as Yeltsin slides toward possible overthrow at the hands of unreconstructed apparatchiks and ultranationalists. One of NATO's residual missions is precisely to stand guard against any renascent threat from Russia or the other former Soviet republics, three of which still have nuclear weapons on their soil. Pointing to real or potential trouble spots on the eastern frontier, German Defense Minister Volker Ruhe said last month, "One cannot imagine that such a successful alliance will close its eyes and ears to what is happening...
...Russian Foreign Ministry, is willing to do business on Tokyo's terms: the islands returned in exchange for a formal peace treaty, never signed after World War II, and financial support for the comatose Russian economy. Opposed is an unruly chorus of nationalist politicians who threaten to overthrow President Boris Yeltsin if he surrenders any more of the "motherland." They are allied with conservative military men, still smarting from the "loss" of Eastern Europe, who fear that return of the islands will threaten the defense of the Russian Far East...
Gore's dorm, Dunster House, in fact, was the"hotbed of radical politics," Robertson says."There was a lot of trouble fitting in, unless youwanted to overthrow the government and become partof the protest...
...interprets the Bible to mean that white Europeans, and thus their American descendants, are God's true chosen people. Though not endorsed by all believers in this anti-Semitic faith, the use of violence has been linked to the Order, a radical fringe underground group that sought unsuccessfully to overthrow the government in the mid-1980s...
That assessment was incorrect: during the dictator's overthrow, Ramos showed himself to be a master infighter who encouraged others, including Marcos, to underestimate him. That Ramos operated with cold and effective calculation in the cutthroat Marcos administration and emerged with his "Mr. Clean" reputation largely intact is his most salient achievement...