Word: pacts
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...times of confusion and hardship, desperate politicians often cannot resist the temptation to use ethnic minorities as scapegoats. The sudden arrival of new freedoms in the Warsaw Pact states at the end of 1989 has brought with it a broadened right to be demagogic and irresponsible, threatening the region's proclaimed goals of democracy, cooperation and stability. "People are able to make decisions for themselves again, and they ) are starting at grade one," says Deyan Kyurianov, a leader of Bulgaria's opposition Union of Democratic Forces. "Nationalism is easy to understand and quick to arouse...
...help relieve the ethnic pressures with economic cooperation and technical-aid programs. At a two-day meeting in Paris last week, representatives of 27 Western nations laid the groundwork for a $12 billion development bank to channel loans to emerging private businesses in the Warsaw Pact countries. But money without artful diplomacy will not completely exorcise the ghostly rivalries that increasingly haunt Eastern Europe...
...among nearly 100 other ethnic groups. The non- Russians best known in the West are the Baltic peoples -- Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians -- who are noisily resisting Moscow's domination. The three independent republics were forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, following the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. For 50 years the U.S. has said Soviet rule in the Baltic republics is illegitimate...
Moldavia too was forcibly incorporated in the U.S.S.R. after the Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact. Ethnically, linguistically and historically, Moldavia is part of Rumania, and some Moldavians now talk of reunification. Despite the justice of such an aspiration, achieving it would set the dangerous precedent of changing Europe's postwar borders. Hungarians, Poles, Germans and others all have potential territorial claims against their neighbors. The result of an epidemic of irredentism might be not merely political chaos but even...
...fully understands the pact between the two brothers. According to some reports, they planned various schemes for moving faster up the ladder both yearned to climb. One source says that Charles had a plan to kill Carol while Matthew faked a burglary of their house...