Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undisguised alarm, particularly the projection of Taliban rule or influence into pro-Moscow Tajikistan, whose border with Afghanistan is already patrolled by Russian soldiers. Last week Boris Yeltsin sent his Prime Minister to a hurriedly arranged meeting of leaders from four former Soviet--and predominantly Muslim--republics in Central Asia. Security Chief Alexander Lebed announced that Russia should help prop up Rabbani, though it is hard to imagine a Russian return to Afghanistan...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Attorney General Janet Reno announced the U.S. made 34 arrests in five cities Friday to break up an international heroin smuggling ring. Operated mainly by Nigerian women, and encouraged by Nigeria's military government, the organization moved heroin from Southeast Asia through Central America and Mexico and into the United States. Working in cooperation with police in Thailand, France and Britain, federal prosecutors and agents took almost a year to build their case and make arrests. President Clinton had high praise for the operation, which he said was part of U.S. effort to cripple major international drug-trafficking...
...travelled to Europe; he's traveled to Asia; he's travelled to the West Coast; and he's finally come to Fall River," Kennedy said as the crowd roared in approval...
...past year and a half I have been here for the colloquia," Weaver said. "[I was impressed by] the quality of scholars that are brought in to work. The international community of scholars from Asia and Africa...provided for a very exciting intellectual environment...
...officials are meeting in Geneva to find a way to ensure sustainable harvesting from the world's forests. TIME's Robert Kroon reports that while the number of forested acres in northern climes is stable or increasing, rapid deforestation continues in tropical rainforests of South America, Africa and Southeast Asia. More than 200 experts are gathered to find ways of balancing pressures on forests -->