Word: postcommunist
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...region's two potential flash points are Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, where postcommunist leaders seem unable to find common ground with either democratic or Islamic movements. President Rakhman Nabiyev of Tajikistan has been under a virtual state of siege since last month, when supporters of the opposition began to gather in the tens of thousands outside the parliament building to urge dismissal of the republic's legislature of holdover party officials. Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov received a warning signal of his own in | January, when students protesting the liberalization of prices clashed with police, resulting in two deaths. Muslim extremists...
...largest economy, is asserting itself as never before in postwar history. It is assuming a forceful leadership role in European foreign policy even as the Bundesbank rules Europe's economic roost. Germany has had a leading role in the task of guiding the former Soviet Union through its postcommunist crisis; it was Chancellor Helmut Kohl who, far more than George Bush, pushed for last week's $24 billion Group of Seven aid package for Boris Yeltsin's Russian government. And German firms are grabbing up many of the best business opportunities in the emerging market economies of Central Europe...
Japan bashing has become a national sport. Richard Gephardt, whose 1988 presidential campaign pioneered postcommunist xenophobia, gave us a precursor of the game with his anti-Korea TV ads. Michael Dukakis got more to the point with a campaign ad featuring an ominously rising sun. Now even a sensible moderate like Bob Kerrey goes on TV openly exhorting his countrymen to "Fight back, America," leaving little doubt as to whom we are to fight now that the Soviets are no more...
...flight to Czechoslovakia. A garden-supply chain in Prague is selling 1-lb. packages of pot imported from neighboring Romania for the equivalent of just 85 cents. According to the manager of the state-owned company, the weed is an effective "fertilizer." Thanks to the country's confused postcommunist legal system, it is not against the law just to purchase the "fertilizer." When the product's availability was disclosed in the Czechoslovak weekly Mlady Svet, dozens of Prague teenagers developed a sudden interest in gardening...
...hardly surprising that, facing a dauntingly complex ballot, almost 57% of the electorate failed to vote last week in Poland's first free parliamentary elections since World War II. Even more frustrated by the country's failure to achieve postcommunist prosperity, those who did go to the polls chose no clear victor and no clear course for the nation: 29 parties will be represented in Poland's 460-seat lower house, and none will have more than 62 seats...