Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Russians are long-suffering, but they have been suffering too long to remain passive. If the anguish drags on until the 2000 election, they might not take to the barricades, but they are apt to protest with their votes. Western experts are concerned that Russians could reject what has been peddled to them as democracy and capitalism and toss it all overboard. The leading candidates to succeed Yeltsin already include Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and retired General Alexander Lebed, the Governor of Krasnoyarsk province. Luzhkov cultivates the air of a strongman and is no fan of reform. Lebed's political...
...Quinn-Judge. "The meltdown in Moscow is simply bringing it into line with the rest of Russia." By comparison, consider China's transition to capitalism: The Communists never relinquished tight political control but transformed its manufacturing sector into a producer of goods -- Nike, the Gap and much more --- that Western consumers want to buy. (Name one big-brand-name product that's made in Russia...
...TIME reporter Stu Stogel says from the U.N. that Western diplomats think Ghaddafi may finally be ready to do a deal, and are ready to extend a friendly hand. "The British and Americans are discussing a temporary suspension of the sanctions on Libya as a show of good faith," he says, "and that would probably be enough to satisfy Ghaddafi." But the ever-elusive Muammar has left himself an out. "So far, he's only promised that he would let the Libyan courts rule on the extradition," says Stogel. "And we all know which way that would come...
...country Chernomyrdin's appointment was supposed to "maintain stability," its effect may be the opposite: The prime minister wants to reverse last week's ruble devaluation package and is expected to drop Anatoly Chubais from his cabinet -- one of the few Russian politicians to enjoy any confidence among Western bankers. President Clinton, when he arrives at the Kremlin next week, may feel as if he's walked into the Mad Hatter's tea party. "Yeltsin is no longer connected in any sense to the solution to Russia's crisis," says Quinn-Judge. "He's very much part of the problem...
...from Morocco to Indonesia who'd never even heard of Osama bin Laden before are now being told in mosques around the world that he's a true Islamic hero," says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk. The 22-member Arab League, many of whose members are pro-Western governments, urged the U.S. to refrain from further actions "which may arouse public outrage." Unless Washington has firm evidence of chemical-weapons production at the Khartoum factory, U.N. scrutiny of the attack is unlikely to help America turn the tide of Islamic world opinion...