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With its army slowly advancing, northern Yemen ignored a U.N. call for a cease-fire in the country's month-old civil war with the secessionist South. The North shelled Aden, headquarters for the southern rebels, and tightened the circle around the port city. Accusing Iraq and Sudan of reinforcing the North, defiant southerners vowed to resist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week May 29-June 4 | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...transition sound easy, his opponents predict corruption of Puerto Rico's soul and destruction of its economy. They also argue that the vote is moot in any case: the U.S. Congress will find a way to reject a poor, Spanish-speaking land that would enter the Union with a secessionist faction. If statehood wins with only a small majority, Congress may find ways to delay confronting the question of union for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Anticipation | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...most dramatic development also sported the most sectionalist banner: the Bloc Quebecois, the fervently francophonic and secessionist coalition that ran only in Quebec, nosed out the Reform Party by two seats (54 to 52) to become the new official opposition. While the Progressive Conservatives always had a counter-opinion for every Liberal stance, the Bloc Quebecois has only a nascent political agenda with which to represent the whole nation's opposition...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: A Model of Democratic Change | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

Georgia's reintegration into Russia's security orbit involves about as much mutual consent as a Mafia shakedown. Russia had cowed its independence-minded neighbors with tacit threats of dismemberment before. In the former republics of Moldova and Azerbaijan, an undeniable pattern has emerged. Secessionist rebels, abetted by rouge Russian forces, score impressive military successes. Miraculously, when these states relent and agree to join the C.I.S., Russia's ability to impose a lasting cease-fire soars...

Author: By Ozan Tarman, | Title: Yeltsin's Brand of Power Politics | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

Each country sent delegates to more than 20 committees to debate and write resolutions concerning recent world events. Some of those issues were the verification of nuclear arms treaties, Georgian secessionist movements, and human rights problems...

Author: By Mohammed N. Khan, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Harvard Model UN Hosts 2,300 | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

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