Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manages to retain control in Serbia's parliament in upcoming elections may determine whether the Yugoslav federation shatters. With a governing bloc, he could more easily press territorial claims against Croatia and grudges against Slovenia. Disintegration was not Poland's problem, and Walesa, despite his affection for Poland's prewar dictator, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, strikes few people as a Volk-glorifying Fuhrer. But in trouncing candidate-come-lately Stanislaw Tyminski, a returned emigre who offered a form of national salvation as easy as a drug trip, Walesa himself could not quite shake off charges of pandering to emotions...
Present uncertainties make rummaging in the past a growing preoccupation -- one that is reviving some nasty habits. Voices of anti-Semitism are again heard in the region, along with virulent nationalistic outbursts that disparage other minorities. Though only a handful of Poland's Jews remain out of a prewar population of 3 million -- and there are none in the administration -- it is not uncommon to hear people blaming problems on "all the Jews in government...
...presidential election years when a Republican has held the White House, the GOP has never in its history gained House seats. Democrats have only gained seats once in an off year in which they held the White House. That was in 1934 at the height of President Roosevelt's prewar popularity...
ESTONIA. Parliament voted to restore a paragraph to its constitution that declares the country is "an independent republic," and to drop "Soviet Socialist" from its name. The prewar tricolor national flag was hoisted over the parliament building, replacing the red flag...
...near the top -- he is also the first man to have grown up entirely within the confines of the modern conservative movement. He was surprisingly unscarred by that (or any) experience when Bush chose him. Quayle claimed John Kennedy was just as young in 1960; but Kennedy had known prewar Europe as well as the wartime Pacific...