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A host of other troubles bedevils the coalition. Moscow is too busy with domestic crises to do more than offer moral support. Understandably, popular enthusiasm for a foreign military adventure is not great at a time when Soviet mothers are still mourning sons killed in Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia and Syria...
Beyond these three economic force fields, national, tribal and religious conflicts threaten to turn many parts of the world into larger Lebanons -- conflicts like the ones pitting Arabs against Israelis, Islamic factions against one another, Islamic fundamentalism against the West, Indians against Pakistanis, among others.
In a way, Mathers is part of a re-creation, edging back toward an open and exhilarating country that was swept away by bad government policy and greed. Homesteading was a tragedy in most of the plains, pitting small farmers against the relentless weather. It was no contest. But then...
Some human-rights activists think recent police actions point to a power struggle within the government pitting reformers like De Klerk against right- wing securocrats. The activists do not believe De Klerk is directing police troublemaking, since the violence undercuts his reform efforts. Besides, the security forces are filled with...
Backed further and further into a corner, Saddam Hussein has applied his energies to splintering the motley alliance of nations mustered against him. He attempted to paralyze some Western countries by making hostages of the foreign nationals caught in his grip. He sought to fragment his fellow Arabs by pitting...