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...South Africans begin efforts to redraw their political map, even Buthelezi's critics must acknowledge that he is a force to be reckoned with. His power and the ruthlessness of many of his supporters are more apparent than ever in the three-year-old civil war between Inkatha, the Zulu-based mass political and cultural movement, and the A.N.C., which has turned the green hills of Natal province into South Africa's worst killing field. Since Mandela's release in February, Buthelezi's supporters have repeatedly invaded A.N.C. strongholds with shotguns and pangas. The upsurge in violence has left some...
...hoping that if it ignores the Georgian national movement, it might somehow go away. But what will happen when Moscow wakes up to the fact that independence is a word not limited to the Lithuanians? Gorbachev makes no secret of how deeply he fears the movements seeking to redraw the boundaries of his country. At a meeting with young Communists last week, he predicted, "If we begin to divide up, I'll give it to you bluntly, we'll end up in such a civil war, in such bloody ! carnage that we won't be able to crawl...
...early 1980s, a new Rifkin cause was aborning. The Reagan Administration had begun to unshackle American industry by dismantling regulatory standards and environmental protections. At the same time, researchers were refining the new tools of molecular biology, which enabled them to redraw the blueprints of life. Genetic-engineering companies were launched in this era of deregulation with glowing prospectuses that promised both medical elixirs and vast profits from applications of the new technology...
...Club, which is being investigated by the state on charges of gender discrimination, asked to be exempted from a plan to redraw the borders of the Harvard Square Overlay District and to reduce the floorto-area ratios of certain lots by nearly 60 percent...
...handshake. Smiling and pumping arms, they then began their maiden meeting in the glittering, baroque Festsaal in the sprawling Hofburg, that imperial crescent of stone buildings in the heart of Vienna. The locale was rich with inspiration: in 1815 the Congress of Vienna convened at the nearby chancellery to redraw the political face of Europe. Last week's gathering of 35 foreign ministers ushered in a modern-day reprise to redraft the Continent's military map. The talks, called CFE -- Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe -- are destined to be the arms-control battlefield of the 1990s...