Word: slovaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These tracks, from the days of the previous guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Irons, are harder and more guitar-oriented than other Peppers work. The best of these songs is "Behind the Sun," displaying lead singer Anthony Kiedis's deft use of melody rather than solely...
...trouble. In Czechoslovakia, Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus is pursuing a rapid move to free markets -- he pioneered the voucher scheme for privatizing state industry that Russia now proposes to copy -- at the price of agreeing to a date of Jan. 1 for splitting the nation into separate Czech and Slovak republics. Slovak insistence on breaking up the union is fueled partly by ethnic animosity, often expressed as resentment of a "big brother" arrogance on the part of the Czechs. But it also reflects the Prague government's refusal to keep subsidizing such Slovak heavy industries as the aluminum plant...
...even long-established multiethnic states seem to be immune from breakup. For 74 years Czechoslovakia achieved a mostly peaceful accommodation between Slovaks and Czechs. As recently as 1989 they were solidly united in the "velvet revolution" against communist rule. But now, driven by discontent with their economic lag, the Slovaks have won Czech agreement to effect a "velvet divorce," splitting up peacefully by Sept. 30 into two countries. Both sides are having second thoughts and talking about forming some sort of confederation. But ethnic separatism may be a genie difficult to cram back into the bottle. Says Slovak leader Vladimir...
...Slovak leader's waffling reflects his electorate's ambiguous feelings. While many Slovaks resent the power of Prague and in particular Klaus' hard- nosed market policies, most did not want an outright split. The prospect of a separate Slovakian budget for 1993 could give form to those doubts: only 13% of last year's foreign investment to Czechoslovakia went to Slovakia, where unemployment has burgeoned to almost...
...used to be Yugoslavia, the breakaway states of Croatia and Bosnia formed a military alliance against Serbia, a move that is likely to escalate the fighting in the Balkans. The country that used to call itself Czechoslovakia has already split up its name: it's now the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. That last word will soon be plural, for both Czechs and Slovaks agreed on Saturday to create separate states by the end of September. In what used to be the U.S.S.R., old feuds flared anew in the Caucasus...