Word: secessionism
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Deadlines do tend to concentrate the mind. That would seem to be the hope of Robert Bourassa, Quebec's premier, who last week delivered a clear ultimatum to Canada: draw up, by the end of 1992, a new constitution that gives Quebec greater powers -- or the French-speaking province will...
There is little chance that Gorbachev will choose this way out. Western Sovietologists read him as a leader dedicated to preserving his empire. It seems to them he has concluded that if he gives the Balts such an opening, the other rebellious republics will rush for it as well. And...
No wonder. The immediate menace of Iraq may soon be eliminated, but the disintegration of the Soviet Union will be an ugly fact of global life for a long time to come. Last week's focus of anxiety was the Baltics, but passions for secession and instincts for repression run...
Czechoslovakia's brief ethnic feud also illustrated the hair-trigger sensitivities that vex Eastern Europe. Slovaks, who account for a third of the nation's 15 million people, have long nursed a sense of victimization. Wary of Czech domination, Slovak leaders hinted at secession unless Prague agreed to extensive decentralization...
Ershad's exit boosted hopes for democratic succession in a country whose political history has been written in blood. Though he vowed to run for the presidency again, legislators in his own Jatiya Party were resigning last week and even military loyalists encouraged him to go. Scandals, a tyrant's...