Word: secessionist
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...military situation shows no sign of improvement in either province. Following an attempted coup against Mengistu by members of his own army last May, the government opened peace negotiations with the secessionist Eritrean People's Liberation Front. They arranged a cease-fire, but a subsequent round of talks ended in stalemate last November without any agreement for the movement of food to drought-stricken areas. To the south in Tigre, two rebel armies have managed to drive out all troops and representatives of the civilian government. Since August the rebels have been pressing an offensive through Gondar and Wollo provinces...
...Baltic republics, secessionist passion is inversely proportional to the percentage of ethnic Russians living there. Lithuania has the smallest Russian population; hence Gorbachev received the region's most emotional dose of separatism. Nonetheless, there was something exhilarating about seeing the leader of the Soviet Union debating citizens in the streets. Thomas Jefferson could not have asked for a better illustration of democracy in action, though Gorbachev may have wished for an experience a shade less vivid...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Moscow's solicitousness may be attributed to a desire to quell the discontent of ethnic Rumanians in the Soviet republic of Moldavia, a region Stalin annexed from Rumania in 1940. Now that Ceausescu is gone, the Kremlin has every reason to expect that secessionist fervor will be rekindled. Evidently Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev hopes Bucharest can be bribed not to fan the flames -- proof, if any were needed, that the road to reconstruction may take some highly unpredictable turns...
...presides over peace and prosperity, yet he is hearing mounting criticism for his timid response to the stunning changes taking place overseas. The other President, though wildly popular around the world, is in serious trouble at home, threatened with civil war in the south of his country, a secessionist movement in the north and a collapsing economy that heralds a winter of fuel shortages and food riots. For all these differences -- and because of them -- George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev both stand to gain from a feet-up-on-the-table, let's-get-to-know-each-other chat...
Other simulations presented to the delegates included the formation of a white secessionist state in South Africa and a call for the return of former dictator Idi Amin to Uganda, according to Marc S. Sabatine '90, the specialized agencies undersecretary general...