Word: unioned
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Beginning with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union, Fritz describes the violent and turbulent social migrations created by these changes. In Eastern Europe people free from oppressive communist regimes for the first time in generations poured into Berlin. Citizens of Hungary, Romania and other Eastern European countries fled to West Germany, while many West Germans took advantage of their opportunity to travel in East Germany again. Fritz writers that "Everywhere, everyone caught a scent of something--prosperity, pop culture, maybe--and went a little loony," Romanian Gypsies came to Berlin mostly in dire...
...break-up of the Soviet Union is viewed by Fritz as a major factor in increased migration and emigration. Fritz argues that the "forced collectivization of the '20s, the ideological purges of the '30s and the ethnic shuffling of perceived Nazi sympathizers during the '40s "caused much displacement and conflict in terms of people of different ethnicities and nationalities thrown together haphazardly. For example, in describing the independence movement in Chechnya, Fritz tells of the conflicts between Chechens, Russians and the Ingush who wanted to unite with North Ossetia, who in turn wanted to unite with South Ossetia which...
More meetings are scheduled for later thismonth, and the union has agreed to theUniversity's proposal to have a federal mediatoroversee the bargaining sessions
Opponents of death penalty were State Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas M. Finneran; Ann Lambert, a lobbyist for the Massachusetts American Civil Liberties Union; Joshua Rubenstein, northeast regional director of Amnesty International USA and Representative John P. Slattery (D-Peabody...
Opponents of death penalty were State Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas M. Finneran; Ann Lambert, a lobbyist for the Massachusetts American Civil Liberties Union; Joshua Rubenstein, northeast regional director of Amnesty International USA; and Representative John P. Slattery (D-Peabody...