Word: split
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...theme that reverberated last week across the Slavic lands of Eastern Europe. In Serbia a vendetta-minded super-patriot won voter endorsement as leader of Yugoslavia's dominant republic, while in supposedly velvetized Czechoslovakia ethnic jealousies threatened to split the nation. In an emergency appeal, President Vaclav Havel cited freedom's hazards. "The state," he said, "is not endangered from outside, as has happened many times in the past, but from within. We are putting it at risk by our own lack of political culture, of democratic awareness and of mutual understanding...
...appears the three forwards will probably play with each other for the rest of their collegiate careers. Tomassoni would be a fool to split up the winning combination--even when Weisbrod returns...
East Europeans also want assurances that they are not to be poor relations forever. Old political divisions could be replaced by economic ones, warned Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki at last week's Paris summit of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), "unless the split into a rich and a poor Europe, an A-class and a B-class Europe, is overcome." The leaders of the 34 states at the conference concluded by signing the Charter of Paris, a treaty marking the end of the cold war and the beginning of a new Europe committed to "prosperity...
...Oscar in Cali was charging Villabona about $10,000 for a kilo. Out of that, Oscar paid Colombian growers and refiners about $3,000 and Mexican smugglers $2,000. He kept $5,000 for himself. In the U.S., Villabona and Bennett charged $12,000 for a kilo and split the profits. Some weeks Bo pocketed $1 million...
...attitude is even more unsure. U.S. and Soviet officials canceled a Bush-Gorbachev press conference that they had scheduled in Paris, obviously because the two Presidents, dining together, had failed to agree on a use-of- force resolution. Both sides then scrambled to deny any impression of a ( serious split. Bush declared that he and Gorbachev "see eye to eye," and any differences are "extraordinarily minor." Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze both said the Security Council needed to take further action against Iraq, but neither would use what journalists have begun to call "the F word." At a hastily...