Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wave of communist-nationalist outrage that will weaken reform has worn thin in the face of polls that show average Russians don't care about the issue. Albright arrived armed with a package of proposals to make the accession of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to the western alliance more palatable to the Yeltsin government. Included were a charter to link Russia to the alliance, unilateral arms reductions and a joint NATO-Russian brigade for peacekeeping operations. "It is no longer us versus you or you versus us," she told a news conference. "We are on the same side...
Gabriel J. Chin, a professor at the Western College of New England School of Law said the color-blind approach to admissions is a "superficially appealing approach...
...means free, even in Hong Kong. "The Chinese government knows everything I do," says Zhang. "My family back home has been warned several times that I must end my involvement in the democracy movement here." Soon after her escape, she applied for political asylum in any Western country. But she fears she will still be waiting for an answer when the colony rejoins the mainland on July 1. "I'm a nobody in the outside world. Unless I get asylum, I can only sit and wonder how long it will be before they come...
...government in Beijing has made little secret of the fact that it regards the exiles as wanted criminals or illegal immigrants, and will not allow them to remain in Hong Kong. Officials there have chastised Hong Kong for admitting dissidents and have demanded Western cooperation in "returning them to justice." More recently Beijing has demanded that the colonial government hand over the list of dissidents still in Hong Kong. Says Albert Ho, a democratic legislator in the colony: "It is obvious these people will not be tolerated after the handover. They must disappear by the change in sovereignty or face...
Beijing may raise a ruckus against Western countries that take in Zhang and the others, but privately the government may also be relieved. Kenneth Chow, a Hong Kong lawyer on Beijing's handpicked advisory committee, says the dissidents would probably be warned to toe the line. If they don't, "you either arrest them or let them wander about and create damage. You don't want to do either, so the best way is someone else's taking them...