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...slackening of the Yeltsin campaign's anticommunist message in the last 10 days. The Americans had advised "that you cannot hit hard enough, or long enough, the idea of the communists' bringing civil unrest if they win." In the first round, says Shumate, "the repetition lesson never took completely...
...most feared about the Communists. Long lines, scarce food and renationalization of property were frequently cited, but mostly people worried about civil war. "That allowed us to move beyond simple Red bashing," says Shumate. "That's why Yeltsin and his surrogates and our advertising all highlighted the possibility of unrest if Yeltsin lost. Many people felt some nostalgia for what the communists had done for Russia and no one liked the President--but they liked the possibility of riots and class warfare even less." "'Stick with Yeltsin and at least you'll have calm'--that was the line we wanted...
Although the University doesn't have the same problems as Yale--whose strikes have been so bitter that they have drawn national media attention--Harvard has consistently failed to ink contracts without significant unrest. Consistently, that is, until the past two years...
...fact Shaath and his colleagues have been operating on that premise for months. Just about anything that could help Peres, they have done--or more exactly not done--avoiding rhetoric and protests that could stir up unrest. In response to terrorist attacks, Peres has for the past three months prevented workers who live in Gaza and the West Bank from entering Israel, but Palestinian officials said little about it in the final weeks of the campaign. If, because of his political situation, Peres failed to live up to one of his promises, they simply ignored it. The accord Shaath brokered...
...Palestinian state, tactical cooperation between the P.L.O. and Hamas--their fight-and-talk strategy, similar to what the Vietnamese did with the U.S.--will break down, and you'll have a civil war between the Palestinians and Hamas, a Lebanonization of Palestine. The Syrians would use this kind of unrest and violence as an excuse to move in, as they did in Lebanon, to "restore order." Israel would have to react, and this could set the stage for a serious outbreak of armed hostility that other Arab states would get sucked into, to make one last effort to wipe...