Word: tadzhikistan
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Perhaps this is an idea whose time has come. The intellectual attic is stuffed now. Urgent, exotic pieces of lumber (like Nagorno-Karabakh and Baku and Soweto and Tadzhikistan and Violeta Chamorro and Yegor Ligachev and Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Sisulu and Umberto Eco, on and on) are gathering in the mind from all over the world. They are tumbling out the windows...
...authorities have agreed to halt lethal confrontations with the angry crowds. "The people demand the resignation of the government!" shouts one speaker. Others call for an end to the sale of pork in public markets, the punishment of soldiers and militia responsible for shooting civilians, even the departure from Tadzhikistan of all who are not Tadzhiks...
...hush has descended upon the gathering. After the prayer call, the mullah reads a sura from the Koran honoring the dead. Three minutes later, the prayer and reading are over, but there is an unmistakable new militancy in the air. "Makhkamov must go!" shouts yet another speaker, referring to Tadzhikistan's Communist Party chief, and the crowd roars its approval...
...walk back toward Putovskova Square and talk with a middle-age peasant. "I have six children, and I support my two parents on 160 rubles a month," he tells me. "There just isn't enough work." He has a point. According to Soviet officials, Tadzhikistan's birthrate of 45 per 1,000 is by far the highest in the Soviet Union, even as the republic's economy is one of the poorest. Joblessness is openly admitted by Tadzhik officials; an estimated 70,000 to 200,000 are out of work...
...both sides, the cost of unification begins to sink in. -- In a TIME interview, Nelson Mandela talks about a negotiated future. -- From Tadzhikistan, an exclusive report on an Islam-tinged revolt...