Word: secessionism
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But it's not as if Louisiana is starting a secession movement. And now that David Duke may become the state's governor, the concerns of Louisiana are especially relevant to the concerns of people across the country.
It is something of a miracle, then, that the political center fashioned after Mengistu's flight is holding. Though the interim government is dominated by Meles' Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, its ruling council includes representatives from 35 different parties. Last July it adopted a charter ensuring each ethnic...
The leaders in the outlying republics are an odd mix. Some were dissidents under the old regime; others were minions of Moscow who embraced nationalism only when it was expedient. When the abortive coup in August accelerated the disintegration of the union, sovereignty went from a slogan to a realistic...
Some kind of union treaty will be signed, creating a new country in place of the old Soviet Union, and at least six republics -- Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Ukraine, Moldavia and Georgia -- may remain outside it. All three Baltic states have formally declared their independence. On Saturday, the Ukraine's...
The OMON base was the Lithuanian police academy until soldiers loyal to Moscow took it by force in January. Now the building looks like a command post in a war zone, and those who inhabit it view themselves as besieged defenders of the Soviet empire. In its unofficial role as...