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...elections may determine whether the Yugoslav federation shatters. With a governing bloc, he could more easily press territorial claims against Croatia and grudges against Slovenia. Disintegration was not Poland's problem, and Walesa, despite his affection for Poland's prewar dictator, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, strikes few people as a Volk-glorifying Fuhrer. But in trouncing candidate-come-lately Stanislaw Tyminski, a returned emigre who offered a form of national salvation as easy as a drug trip, Walesa himself could not quite shake off charges of pandering to emotions...
...Conservatives also organized a week of anti-Mandela rallies and threatened strikes to force De Klerk from office. "I am not proclaiming an armed struggle," thundered party leader Andries Treurnicht. "But if a government does not protect the rights of its people, what can be expected but that the volk will protect itself...
...answer is no, or at least not yet. Pretoria's calls for change are not a recent concession to foreign pressure. As early as 1979, long before economic sanctions were considered, President P.W. Botha told his Afrikaner volk to "adapt or die." In 1986 he described apartheid as "outdated and unacceptable." It was only later that year, to push for faster change, that the U.S. enacted its comprehensive sanctions bill. Those measures hit South Africa where it hurts: in the economy, and in the keen sense among whites that they are pariahs in the world's eyes and will remain...
...atmosphere for 200 million years, Lovelock asserts, whereas they should have fluctuated wildly, according to some geochemical models of the atmosphere. Were oxygen levels to rise above 25%, spontaneous fires would break out; if they dropped below 15%, many higher life-forms would suffocate. Climatologist Tyler Volk of New York University argues that life controls earth's temperature as well. In a study recently published in the British journal Nature, he and colleague David Schwartzman asserted that, without the cooling effects of living things, earth would be 80 degrees F warmer...
...outside the University of Berlin, where the works of illustrious liberals (Emile Zola) and Jews (Heinrich Heine) were consigned to the flames. Jews were barred from public office, the civil service and professions like teaching and journalism. The basic idea behind all this was embodied in the slogan "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" (One people, one nation, one leader...