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Compounding the difficulties for Eastern Europe is political unrest and economic chaos in the Soviet Union as well as, farther away, the conflict in the Persian Gulf. Turmoil in the Middle East has pushed up oil prices and curtailed world markets at the very moment when the Soviet Union, still the East Europeans' major trading partner, has cut back sharply on oil deliveries to its former allies and reduced its purchases of their goods. In Hungary angry motorists have blockaded roads and bridges; in Bulgaria the government has been forced to order sharp cuts in the power supply...
...rights reported a 7% increase in the incidence of so-called bias crimes this year. That trend is reflected in the rise in racial assaults recorded by Klanwatch, which monitors such crimes across the U.S. for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery. "The national recession has created general unrest," says director Danny Welch, "especially among white males vying for jobs they didn't use to have to compete...
...lucrative crop. Bolivia obtains more than a third of its $1.2 billion in foreign exchange from cocaine, while Peru gets about a quarter of its $4 billion. Although both nations would like to cease their dependence on cocaine, they dare not press too strongly for fear of provoking civil unrest. In Bolivia the use of U.S. troops in 1986 to destroy drug labs sparked violent protests. Peru's new President, Alberto Fujimori, fearful of pushing recruits into the arms of the Shining Path guerrillas, has hesitated to unleash the full force of the military in interdiction efforts. Both countries prefer...
Moreover, much as the survival of the Soviet Union in its present form is threatened by unrest among its non-Russian minorities, the Ottoman Empire ultimately could not withstand the nationalist aspirations of its non-Turkish peoples. The Greeks, aided by the English Romantic poet Lord Byron, were the first to break away in the 1820s. The last to revolt were the Arabs. Inspired by Lawrence of Arabia, they broke free of Ottoman domination during World War I, only to come under British and French rule soon afterward...
While Klaus' plans are less drastic than the wags imply, he has a reputation for toughness. President Vaclav Havel himself has long argued that Klaus' shock therapy is too severe and would produce civil unrest...