Ethnic Passion: YUGOSLAV TRIBAL HATRED THREATENS EUROPE
LINDA WERTHEIMER, host: Solving the conflict in Yugoslavia, says new analyst Daniel Schorr, means making up for past deeds and recognizing today's reality.DANIEL SCHORR REPORTING: Patched together from the ruins of empires after World War I, Yugoslavia came apart in World War II. Serbs and Croats, divided by a common language and uncommon hostility, murdered each other by the thousands. Glued back together by Communist ideology and the force of Marshal Tito's...
Ethnic Passion: Past evils forgotten in tumult of freedom behind old Iron Curtain Those shaken by change should direct their rage at the real villains, not at minorities and recent immigrants.
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 do nothing to stop the systematic ripoff....
Ethnic Passion: Not every nation bound for democracy
Every once in a while, some of our best thinkers seem to agree in a new synthesis of America's role in the world. So I have sensed it recently, in the important ongoing debate about spreading American democracy throughout the world. First, last spring, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser under the Carter administration, reflected in a major speech: "What we see before us is not a New World Order but global turmoil and philosophical confusion. It is much...
Ethnic Passion: COMMUNOSTALGIA
Many Eastern Europeans are forgetting the painful tyranny of the past in the uncomfortable freedom of the present. 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.The policemen sympathize: Gypsies, they explain. Or a Bulgarian gang. It becomes apparent that the feeble...
Ethnic Passion: Serbs' defiance puts Clinton under the gun
BONN, Germany - President Clinton, rebuffed by Bosnian Serbs over peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina, now faces the test of leadership. With the Serbs' rejection Thursday of a U.N. peace plan, it falls to Clinton to sell military action to an uneasy Europe and a wary U.S. public, or walk away and risk criticism that he turned his back on genocide.The first commander in chief since Franklin Roosevelt not to have served in the military, Clinton must persuade the Pentagon, the Congress,...