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...anti-immigrant Vlaams Blok party increased its representation from two to 12 seats in November's parliamentary elections. Sweden, long considered the & socialist's dream of the earthly paradise, gave its Social Democrats their worst electoral defeat in 60 years in 1991. The European Community warned at its Maastricht summit in December "that manifestations of racism and xenophobia are steadily growing in Europe...
...right mechanisms for a free-market economy. Then came the high drama of the August putsch and the final unraveling of the union. Given his turbulent career, the Soviet leader probably never suspected that everything would come tumbling down just because three republic leaders decided to hold a weekend summit in Belorussia...
...members of society; in 1986, to promote world peace, he staged the Goodwill Games in Moscow, on which he lost $26 million, and staged them again last year in Seattle, losing an additional $44 million. And everywhere he goes -- including a November press conference on next June's Earth Summit held in a Manhattan studio decorated with a Christmas tree made of fallen twigs and soy-based-ink ribbons -- he preaches salvation. "If we don't make the right choice after we have all the information, then we don't deserve to live," he told members of People...
Only a week after the Maastricht summit, hailed as a major step toward E.C. unity, the Twelve found themselves deeply divided over whether to recognize the independence of the breakaway republics of Slovenia and Croatia in the face of continuing attacks by the Serb-dominated national army. On the eve of an E.C. foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels, the Germans were in a distinct minority in their push for recognition -- a move they said would deter further Serbian assaults. By the next day, in an unexpected show of diplomatic muscle, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had cajoled and bullied...
...fatal flaw. The two sides agreed to take it up in separate negotiations scheduled to get under way this week in the border village of Panmunjom. If Pyongyang shows that it is not merely playing for time, the two governments plan to hold further meetings in February, with a summit between Roh and Kim a much touted possibility...