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...says. Who? "Fidel. Who else?" Alarmed, her companions shush her, and she lowers her voice. "I'd rather suffer a little more than see this damn government prosper anymore," she whispers. "They have everything -- generators, cars, gas, the food they want -- and we have nothing. They talk about Fatherland or Death, Socialism or Death. Bullshit. I'm not going to die while they fatten themselves...
...society" to proclaim their values. And they have. Speaking on the Italian television network RAI-1, Maurizio Boccacci, leader of the Vicenza marchers, said, "We follow a policy that we hope will regain lost values in our community. Fascism is the family, respect for older people and for the fatherland...
...Working People, based in Moscow, with a group of Cossack monarchists from the south, a loose coalition of oil executives from western Siberia and a group from the northern republic of Karelia. The resulting clash of ideologies ignited dissent among reform- minded supporters, eventually robbing Vartazarova's Fatherland Alliance of a place on the ballot...
...painful process of reform. The government of President Vytautas Landsbergis, who courageously led the resistance to the bloody Soviet army crackdown in January 1990, was unable to translate the skills of revolt into running a country. Politics has shifted in the opposite direction in Estonia, where the nationalist Fatherland coalition has taken power with a pledge to "clean house" -- code words for removing all former communists from office...
That put Major further at odds with Kohl, who wants to press ahead as fast as possible. Kohl told the Bundestag in a speech televised live that Germany's prosperity can be assured only by working toward the goal of European unity. "Germany is our fatherland," he said, "and Europe is our future." He will submit the treaty to the Bundestag for action next week...