Word: secessionism
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What about those other reasons, so persuasive sounding a short time ago, why Gorbachev would not do what he has now done? What about the party as the glue that keeps the empire together? An adviser to Gorbachev says the back-to-back crises in the Baltics and the Caucasus...
The white community is also divided. Polls indicate that De Klerk is slightly ahead of the white population at large in pushing for reform. Fully 31% of whites voted for the breakaway Conservative Party, the bastion of the verkramptes, or ultraconservatives. They object to any form of power sharing and...
In the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, crowds blockaded the Communist Party headquarters and the republic's television studio, while impassioned speakers called for the secession of Azerbaijan and its reunification with regions of northern Iran in a single Islamic state. Demonstrators aligned with a group identified as the National Front...
Last week Gorbachev insisted that if the issue is ever put to a vote, Lithuanians will ultimately reject secession in favor of his own federation plan. Although Gorbachev did not back up that prediction with a wager, he has bet his prestige on the outcome.
WORLD: Rebellion in Lithuania threatens to engulf the Soviet Union in the flames of secession