Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Come on," mutters Furnad, "it's gotta happen before 4 o'clock." On the air, reporter Charles Jaco is killing time by talking to a legal expert. Finally Anderson / appears. Furnad shifts into overdrive: a switch back to Atlanta anchor Lou Waters; a shot of Anderson arriving; a split screen showing Anderson's Associated Press colleagues in New York City; a phone interview with John Anderson, Terry's brother...
...other side, the Patriotic Front of 90 mostly black organizations forged last October has split. The far-left Pan Africanist Congress, which still uses the slogan "One settler, one bullet," denounces the convention as a sellout to whites. So does the Azanian People's Organization, a small black- consciousness group...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl called the compromise "a great victory for German foreign policy." At the least, it spared the E.C. from an embarrassing public split, but there will undoubtedly be unpleasant repercussions for some time to come. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, evoking World War I, reminded the House of Commons that "there is a tradition of the main states of Western Europe splitting in rivalry on these Balkan questions, and this all ending up on the battlefield. I don't think that tradition is a good one." One Conservative M.P. even complained about "the overmighty...
...wouldn't worry about them. The intelligence service has been split ((into foreign and domestic branches)) so that it operates as a normal agency in any civilized state. The border guards have been taken out of the structure. So have communication facilities. KGB chief Vadim Bakatin heads the counterintelligence service, but its functions are entirely different now. Perhaps there are individuals there who could cause trouble, but not the organization as such...
...week's end, however, Nazarbayev decided to cut himself in and brought the other Central Asian republics with him. Western Sovietologists speculated that he had little choice: if Kazakhstan did not join the commonwealth, it might have split in two. Kazakhs are actually a minority among its 16 million citizens; about 40% are ethnic Russians, who might have seceded rather than risk being submerged in an independent Muslim state. The other Central Asian republics simply could not survive economically on their own. They could, however, have formed a federation that would look toward alliances with such states as Turkey...