Word: africanizing
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...limiting itself mostly to its bases and never opening fire unless directly fired upon. In other words, says de Waal, it has been ineffectual, "a liability. Ten thousand soldiers just sitting in their bases." Even that hasn't saved them, however. Last October in the camp of Haskanita, 10 African Union peacekeepers - seven Nigerian, two Batswana and a Senegalese - were killed by a group of Darfur rebels, again part of the community whom the peacekeepers had been sent to protect. A war-crimes indictment against the rebels who perpetrated and led that attack is expected...
...what it used to be," said University of Houston political scientists Richard Murray. Since 2006, when DeLay abandoned his seat, a large number of middle class African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans have moved into the 22nd's growing suburban areas southwest of Houston, around DeLay's old home base, Sugarland. Murray said. Asians, many of them professional and small businessowners with roots in India and Vietnam, are becoming an important force in local elections, particularly in Fort Bend County, the heart of the district where the sugar fields are giving way to suburban growth. Asian political participation has grown...
...responsibility for the deaths of 27 passengers, contending that they were Afghan soldiers, police chief Matiullah Khan Qaneh maintained that the Taliban had killed some 40 civilians who were en route to Iran in search of work. On Oct. 20, aid worker Gayle Williams, who had British and South African citizenship, was shot dead in Kabul by two gunmen on a motorbike as she walked to work, another attack for which the Taliban claimed responsibility...
...resent David Von Drehle's implication in "The Limits of Race" that whites who vote against Obama do so for racial reasons [Oct. 20]. Obviously race influences some voters, but what about blacks? Certainly some African Americans will vote for Obama because he is black. How many of these voters will cancel out white voters who vote for the wrong reasons? James C. Perley, LITTLE SIOUX, IOWA...
...think Dean Brandt is spot on with his vision of making this connection,” said African studies professor Caroline M. Elkins, who will lead a seminar on international human rights in the spring...