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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!uvaarpa!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!UCONNVM.BITNET!HENRYK
  3. Message-ID: <MIDEUR-L%93012414173692@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.mideur-l
  5. Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:13:02 EST
  6. Sender:       Discussion of Middle Europe topics <MIDEUR-L@UBVM.BITNET>
  7. From:         henry krisch <HENRYK@UCONNVM.BITNET>
  8. Subject:      Sovereignty & independence
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  11. Many of the one-time Soviet republics claimed "sovereignty" rather than
  12. "independence." What did it mean? It was, first, an announcement of local
  13. control over natural resources, secondly, a negotiating ploy, and finally,
  14. a holding action until local leaders could see what was going on in rest of
  15. USSR, and what local popular pressure might be. Result: the CIS, which
  16. presumably is what CS-FR would have looked like if Meciar's program would
  17. have been adopted by Czechs.
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