Word: secessionism
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So began John Hancock in perhaps the most eloquent justification of secession in the modern era. Unfortunately, such eloquence and reason are rarely to be seen nowadays, especially among those who would wrest Quebec from Canada. Just north of the border, an elaborate campaign is being waged to coax Quebec...
President Boris Yeltsin is sufficiently sophisticated to realize that his political survival is at stake as a result of actions in Chechnya [Russia, Jan. 16]. But it would be harmful for us to cynically view his motivation as solely political. He knows that instability in Russia alienates investors outside the...
A Political and Military Mess President Boris Yeltsin is sufficiently sophisticated to realize that his political survival is at stake as a result of actions in Chechnya [Jan. 16]. But it would be harmful for us to cynically view his motivation as solely political. He knows that instability in Russia...
But Chechnya is far worse than a dip in the Russian road to democracy, and the Administration is well aware of it. The war is a colossal blunder. The Russians managed to lurch out of two years of dithering, during which they ignored the republic's secession, into a sudden...
The Administration is reluctant to dwell on the fact because it believes U.S. interests still lie in helping Yeltsin out of the mess, not in righteous preaching against it. As Christopher explained it last week, U.S. policy is based on two points: Russia has a right to defend its territory...