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Soon after the unrest dissipated last week, various spokesmen for the Islamic movements appealed for calm. That is standard procedure in a culture that values maintaining at least a semblance of unity. Yet the fact remains that Arafat and the militant Islamists stand intractably opposed: he is committed to making peace with Israel; they are determined to wreck it. Commenting on last week's violence, a senior P.L.O. official remarked, "I don't think it will stop...
...financial debacle, Prime Minister Vladimir Chernomyrdin was to resign and Vladimir Shumeiko (Chairman of the upper house of the Russian parliament), who has better relations with certain circles in the West, was to come to power. The next step was to launch an attack against the Army and provoke unrest. The final stage was supposed to be the establishment of a liberal dictatorship next spring...
...time has come for a little historical perspective. Labor unrest has been as American as apple pie, hot dogs and home runs since 1636. In that benighted year, well before any of the aforementioned institutions -- including the very nation itself -- had been invented, the gentlemen who owned the fishing boats on Richmond Island, off the coast of Maine, imposed the first known salary cap. In their wisdom, they withheld all the wages of their crews for an entire year, a hardball move if ever there was one. Not surprisingly, the fishermen went on strike. Since then there have been tens...
...addition to calming civil unrest, disarmament may encourage growth in the devastated nation, one of the professors said...
...Krasnoyarsk-26, a factory producing weapons-grade plutonium, employees mounted a protest last month, demanding salaries that had not been paid since May. Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin then had to rush to Arzamas-16, where nuclear warheads are being disassembled, to head off a similar kind of unrest...