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Kyrgyzstan’s “tulip revolution” now stands alongside Ukraine’s recent “orange revolution” and Georgia’s ”rose revolution” as the third democratic revolution in a former Soviet state in 18 months. This remarkable turn toward democracy has not been limited to the former USSR; in the last three months, post-Saddam Iraq has held its first democratic elections, Palestinians have freely elected the moderate Mahmoud Abbas, demonstrators have caused the downfall of the Syrian puppet-government in Lebanon and created...
...each of the three former Soviet states, instead of meekly accepting the make-believe re-election of deeply corrupt leaders, average citizens courageously took to the streets, demanded honest government and honest elections, and led a democratic revolution. Neither this nor the first flowering of democracy in the Middle East has been foisted upon reluctant people by the barrel of a gun; rather, it reflects the action of individuals who demanded a say in their government. Before our faith in the common man, the ability of average people, succumbs to cultured intellectual cynicism or sophisticated anti-democratic snobbery, we should...
...international effort to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. What’s happened instead is we’ve seen Iran and North Korea march forward developing nuclear weapons. We’ve seen a move in the wrong direction on securing the loose nukes in the former Soviet Union. We live, as George Bush is fond to say, we live in a very dangerous world. That world’s made a lot more dangerous by America not to actually lead in confronting Iran and North Korea in moving forward on developing nuclear weapons. This administration has completely...
Ever since Mandela's arrest in 1962 on charges of attempted sabotage and treason, his former deputy, Oliver Tambo, now 68, has run the A.N.C. from exile, currently in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. The A.N.C. has received support from the Soviet Union, as well as some Western nations, and is increasingly co operating with the also banned South African Communist Party. The alliance has made it convenient for the Pretoria government to describe the township unrest as Communist inspired. Over the years, the A.N.C. has trained guerrilla fighters at camps in various black African countries and staged a number...
...giant commemorative stamp." But for many participants, particularly those at the NGO forum, the significance of Nairobi was found less in the official proceedings of the U.N. meeting than in the peaceful and joyous way the swirling mix of women from the developed nations, the Third World and the Soviet bloc worked together on a one-to-one basis. Time after time, women linked arms and belted out what came to be the conference's unofficial theme song: "We are the world/ We are the women...