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It is to assume, finally, that threat, even if banished from the East, will not come from elsewhere. We simply have no idea where Germany, China, Japan are headed. We don't know how the Balkans will evolve. We do know that with the Soviet decline other forces will occupy...
IN A FEW years, we may get used to countries being bought and sold. Gorbachev could always put Siberia on an international auction block, or sell the Islamic republics in a bidding war between Iran and Afghanistan.
A more sinister view of the riots was provided by a Russian intellectual resident in Tadzhikistan. He told TIME last week that the violence was deliberately fomented by a group of young radicals within the republic's government who want to give the area an Islamic character. Some extreme elements...
Such fears buttress suspicions among non-Muslim Soviets elsewhere that their country, tied with Turkey as the fifth largest Muslim community in the world (after Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India), is in fact on the brink of the Islamic conflagration that commentator Belyaev feared. Those suspicions are unfair to the...
SPECIAL SECTION: The Soviet Union teeters on the brink of disintegration as republics revolt against the center How Gorbachev moves to save his crumbling empire will affect not only his country but also the world. ^ A chorus of complaints from around the union. > A resurgence of both Russian nationalism and...