Word: separatist
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...first tasks will be to contain separatist violence and address a thicket of economic problems, including an $80 billion foreign debt and a 17% inflation rate. After that, Rao will need to restore cohesion to his party's fragmented ranks...
...Iranians have said they are not seeking to turn southern Iraq, which is predominantly Shi'ite, into a separatist state. Do you believe that...
...past, independence, a break from Baghdad clean and neat. That is an outcome $ none of the allies desire. For one thing, they do not want to be held responsible for Iraq's partition. For another, the Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iran and the Soviet Union might come down with separatist fever as well...
...council of war, and there were no recorded disagreements by Mikhail Gorbachev. A few days later, the Soviet President took to the airwaves to deliver a surprise national address. Visibly distraught, with his lips trembling at times, Gorbachev pleaded for a show of unity in the face of separatist movements and political dissension. "The Soviet Union is a superpower," he said. "Huge efforts were expended to make it so powerful, and we could lose it very quickly...
Preservation of the empire has given the party a potent appeal. One notable scold on the scene last week was Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, Gorbachev's chief military adviser, who blasted fast-track reformers for aligning themselves with anti-socialist and separatist forces. His theme -- "Will we lose our homeland?" -- recalled Joseph Stalin's "Great Patriotic War" strategy of wrapping communism in the banner of saving the motherland from Nazi Germany. Akhromeyev wondered if the Soviet Union would now be "dismembered into pieces" subject to the "humiliation" of "dependence on Western governments...