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...relatively low rating: 4.12 on a 9-point social scale. "Many people ranked them low because they thought they were strange sounding," says Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey, adding that some of those questioned in the surveys may have assumed that Wisians hailed from a small Slavic nation in eastern Europe...
Less spectacular appearances by the Virgin have attracted streams of the faithful in locales from Central America to the Slavic steppes. In Nicaragua, President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro is a strong believer in a series of % visitations by the Madonna in the small town of Cuapa, where Mary was witnessed by a church caretaker several times from May through October of 1980. During a 1981 Mass celebrated at the spot by the Archbishop of Managua, with some 30,000 people in attendance, believers say the sun changed colors. In Hrushiw, Ukraine, tens of thousands of people gathered in 1987 after...
...would look toward alliances with such states as Turkey and Iran, and perhaps even have induced some Tatars, Bashkirs and other Islamic ethnic groups in southern Russia to secede and join them in a sort of Greater Turkestan. By inducing the Central Asians to join the commonwealth instead, the Slavic leaders passed a hard test of whether they could lead toward cohesion and stability rather than divisiveness and chaos...
Only one man could bring the four predominantly Muslim republics of Central Asia into the commonwealth: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. But he is not likely to be bought easily. Irritated that he had not been consulted by the three Slavic republics, he initially sided with Mikhail Gorbachev, arguing that the President "has not yet exhausted his possibilities." By week's end he agreed to join the commonwealth -- provided that Kazakhstan would be recognized as a co-founder...
...head of the sole Central Asian republic outfitted with nuclear weapons, only Nazarbayev can quell Western qualms about a divided weapons arsenal. And only Nazarbayev can lay to rest Muslim fears of Slavic dominance. Short, stocky and sophisticated, Nazarbayev, 51, came to international prominence during the August coup when he steered a level-headed course between renouncing the reactionaries and warning Yeltsin against politically explosive attempts to rearrange borders. He was tapped after the coup to introduce the notion of a state council comprising Gorbachev and the republic leaders...