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...Islam and use it to threaten the country," he said. Those are certain to be heard as fighting words by the F.I.S. As yet, the party's acting leader, Abdelkader Hachani, has steered clear of incendiary rhetoric that might catapult Islamists into the street and give the authorities a pretext to ban the party. Last week, when riot police surrounded the mosque where Hachani was conducting Friday prayers, a traditional forum for political messages, he counseled, "Whatever happens, do not react...
Backed halfheartedly by Belgium and Denmark, Germany argued for recognition of the two republics as quickly as possible, suggesting that international acceptance of Croatia's frontiers would deflect the Serbian drive to annex more Croatian territory on the pretext of protecting Serb minorities. But opponents in Britain, France, Holland and, from the sidelines, the U.S. and the United Nations countered that recognition might only provoke the Serbs into expanding the civil war by deploying the national army into Bosnia- Herzegovina to "protect" the Serb minority there. That in turn could cause the conflict to spread to Macedonia, possibly involving Greece...
...still saw himself as the indispensable man, the only figure on the political stage who can avert civil war, who can keep the army under control, who can bring Slavs and Muslims together, who can prevent the hungry, angry, impatient populace from pouring into the streets and providing a pretext for another rightist coup...
...country trooped to the polls last week, George Bush voted with his feet. He canceled a two-week swing through Asia, set for later this month, in the face of scathing complaints from Democrats about his lackluster handling of domestic affairs. The decision was draped in an unusually flimsy pretext: Bush said he needed to remain in Washington to "protect the American taxpayer" during the last days of the congressional session. Explained a more candid aide: "Given the choice between upsetting Americans and upsetting the Japanese, we'll take the latter every time...
That message would have intensified fears that resurgent Russian imperialism would fill the vacuum left by the collapse of Soviet power. Under the pretext of "protecting" their ethnic kinsmen, some Russian nationalists might try to seize other republics' territory. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the head of the spectacularly misnamed Liberal Democratic Party, has even made claims against Poland and Finland on the grounds that they once belonged to the Czars. You're not likely to dismiss Zhirinovsky as a nut case if you're a Pole, a Finn -- or one of the 6 million Russians who voted for him in the republic...