Word: secessionist
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...insensitivity to nationalist sentiments and his rejection of the legitimate aspirations of the Soviet republics have aggravated the secessionist tendencies that are now tearing the country apart...
...civil war, resulting in the breakup of the union, may occur if the central authorities deny the right of national self-determination and thus provoke secessionist explosions across the country. Or Russian nationalists could deliberately stimulate secessionism. But history could help us avert such a disaster. We experienced civil war at the beginning of this century. Perhaps the vividness of that memory will deter us from repeating the same mistake at the end of this century...
...overwhelmingly confirmed as president -- under the banner of the renamed Socialist Party of Serbia -- in . elections last December. In his efforts to fuel nationalist passions and to silence dissent, Milosevic exercised ironclad control over Serbia's state- owned media, which in turn waged a war of words against secessionist-minded Croatians and Slovenes and the equally nationalistic but more democratic Serbian opposition. On March 9 some 100,000 people crowded into Belgrade's Republic Square to register their opposition...
...restiveness. Supporting the Kurds would create a stewpot of problems as well. Turkey, an important constituent in the anti-Saddam team and a NATO member, fears that any gains made by Iraq's Kurds would embolden Turkey's own 8 million-member Kurdish minority, which has fought a bloody secessionist campaign for seven years. Syria, the Soviet Union and Iran also have large Kurdish communities that they prefer to see quiescent...
...with 1917, the year of the Bolshevik Revolution. A complete breakdown, they fear, could happen with stunning rapidity, perhaps in only 10 to 20 days. Says an assessment drafted last week: "Labor strikes in key sectors at the same time political and military power is being fragmented by ((secessionist moves on the part of)) republics, and even ((individual)) cities . . . could create a sudden economic collapse which could cause civil unrest...