Ethnic Passion PAINFUL TYRANNY OF PAST IS FORGOTTEN IN UNCOMFORTABLE FREEDOM OF PRESENT
As a tourist enters the 700-year-old Matthias Church in Budapest, she is jostled in the crowd; moments later, she reaches into her pocket and cries, ''My wallet is gone!'' At the police station, she meets two couples, Dutch and German, also victims of pickpockets in the same place on the same afternoon. The policemen sympathize: Gypsies, they explain. Or a Bulgarian gang. It becomes apparent that the feeble authorities will do nothing to stop the...
Ethnic Passion Nagorno-Karabakh remains trouble spot for Gorbachev
Moscow retains only titular control of Asian region plagued by unrest
BADARA, U.S.S.R. -- From the windows of her living room, Galya Israelyan can look down over the rooftops of this Armenian village, out to the green and gold mountains and the clearing where a few days ago her husband, Ruben, was shot dead.He was 32, and the father of five, including a newborn daughter, when he became a casualty in the Soviet Union's bloodiest and most intractable nationalist feud in recent years. Although the police say their investigation is unfinished, the...
Ethnic Passion set of woes William Safire
set of woes William Safire BUDAPEST As a tourist enters the 700-year-old Matthias Church, she is jostled in the crowd; moments later, she reaches into her pocket and cries, "My wallet is gone!" At the police station, she meets two couples, Dutch and German, also victims of pickpockets in the same place on the same afternoon. The policemen sympathize: Gypsies, they explain. Or a Bulgarian gang. It becomes apparent that the feeble authorities will...
Ethnic Passion Save Kosovo from genocide,
Iowa City authors explain how conflict developed since 1989
Reports of mounting violence in tiny Kosovo in Yugoslav Serbia have thrust upon the international conscience a vivid reminder of the horrific warfare in Croatia and Bosnia. The situation is critical. United Nations and other international security officials met two weeks ago to try to halt the bloodshed - so far, to no avail. Innocent men, women and children in remote villages where alleged terrorists are said to be hiding are being rounded up, tortured, and summarily shot. A formerly...