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The New York Times and Los Angeles Times lead with East Timor, where the region's just-announced vote to secede from Indonesia is being met with a murderous spree by anti-independence groups.
But, if you forgive me for tooting my horn a little, you may remember a little piece I wrote for the New Republic in 1988, called "Paristroika," laying out the uncanny similarities between the situation of the then-Soviet Union and the situation of France on the eve of its 1789 revolution (the pompous Sovietologist Jerry Hough wrote a condescending letter to the editor, scolding me for my ignorance in failing to realize that the Russians would never let things get to the point where Ukraine or Lithuania might secede.
So look for the Reform Party's displaced progressives to declare the purity of their principles, denounce the corruption of the populists who have taken over the party machine, and march out--to found a new party, perhaps, from which, in time, they can secede.
I was offended by the language employed by Alex Heard in "If At First You Don't Secede," his portrait of the participants in the Republic of Texas movement.
The tiny republic is itching to secede from Yugoslavia.