Word: neocommunist
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...least four glossy photo books are devoted to Yading's claim to Shangri-la, but several authors insist it can be found in Yunnan's Deqin prefecture. To get there fly to Zhongdian, some 170 km away. Nobody would mistake this northern town, with its neocommunist concrete structures and rows of karaoke bars, for a terrestrial paradise, but nearby is the stunning Songzanlin Monastery, which could as easily have sprung from Hilton's imagination as that of a Tibetan architect. And Deqin?especially the majestic, glacier-draped Mount Kagbo, Yunnan's highest peak at 6,740 m?lives...
...case. Before NATO's campaign began, the propaganda of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic hit its limits in the credulity of many Serbs. His message mostly found purchase with the impoverished, rural and uneducated. In the cities you could seek out independent sources of information that put Milosevic's retrograde, neocommunist line in context. But with the war on, those independent voices are either snuffed out or taken over. Now, even among the educated elite, a slow, sad transformation is taking hold as Milosevic's distorted media prism resolves every shade of gray into black and white...
Like other dictators of this age, Milosevic makes these calculations in virtual isolation. He rarely appears in public, never travels anywhere. He nominally consults an inner circle of perhaps 15, but his only true adviser is his ambitious, neocommunist wife Mira Markovic. "His pride at being a guy everyone comes to is huge," says a Western diplomat. "But his purpose is to throw people into confusion...
...from the 21% of only three months ago in the national elections. A glum editorial in the left-leaning La Repubblica lamented that Italians "chose unanimously to shout that they wanted to be governed by Silvio Berlusconi." The landslide sparked the bitter resignation of Achille Occhetto, leader of the neocommunist Democratic Party of the Left, who, despite capturing 19% of the vote, was blamed for blowing the party's seemingly unbeatable lead in March...
...world has an enormous stake in a game it can influence only marginally. Yeltsin may have exaggerated when he called his opponents cold warriors eager to reignite the global arms race and return to angry confrontations with the West. But an assertive Russia under a nationalist or neocommunist banner could be a disaster for its neighbors and the West. It would force reassessment of policies thoroughly changed by the end of the cold war. The prospect of facing an unfriendly Russia once more might force the Clinton Administration not just to cancel some planned Pentagon budget cuts but to begin...