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...cobalt and copper, came with stunning speed. Mobutu's ouster was the culmination of a seven-month military campaign that began as an uprising among Tutsi tribesmen in southeastern Zaire after they were ordered expelled from the country. With backing from the anti-Mobutu governments of Uganda, Rwanda and Angola, Kabila took control of and expanded the rebel movement, sweeping east to west across the vast Central African nation almost without opposition until he was camped on the doorstep of Kinshasa. Pushed before him in the jungle were hundreds of thousands of Hutu refugees from Rwanda, many of whom...
...Vietnam, and the bloody muddle of Iraq may weary them of playing this role once again. That would please those who would like to see Gulliver bound, but they might be careful of what they wish for. In the years after Vietnam, the Soviet Union, uncontained, went adventuring in Angola, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. If, after Iraq, the U.S. decided that sorting out the world's problems just wasn't worth the hassle, any answer to the question "Who will contain Iran?" (nobody? Israel?) would be a lot more uncomfortable than "Uncle...
...impressive climb that humans attempt. In 1993 the traffic was heavy in both directions, from the world's lower brain to the upper, and back down again. Gestures of statesmanship, as lately in Northern Ireland, alternated with low-brain savageries: the lashing tribal wars of Bosnia, Somalia, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh . . . The list of conflicts went on and on, like a vicious geography lesson. The euphoria that had attended the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of communism and the end of the cold war had some seers announcing that amid instant global communications...
...Beers' move into retail may be motivated by its shrinking share of the rough-diamond market. In part because of new competing mines in Russia, Australia, Canada and Angola, De Beers' cut has fallen from 80% at its height in the late 1980s to 50% today. The move is controversial. When De Beers announced this venture in 2001, rival retailers stocked with De Beers stones saw it as "the ultimate threat," says Matthew Runci, Jewelers of America CEO. De Beers has promised to refuse its retail spin-off sweetheart deals. Adds Runci: "I've heard people adjusting, as they must...
Publicity seems to be stinging the influence peddlers. Robert Gray, who has lost Angola and Morocco as clients in the past month and laid off a dozen of his lobbying company's 190 employees, was moved last week to write in the New York Times, defending lobbyists as "conduits through which clashing attitudes reach decision makers...