Word: beset
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...Rights Elliott Abrams during a congressional hearing ... 'Repeated reports of large-scale civilian massacres, forced starvation and impeded humanitarian relief operations indicate that Uganda has one of the most serious human rights problems in the world today' ... At one time known as the 'Pearl of Africa,' Uganda has been beset by tribal rivalries ever since it won its independence from Britain in 1962 ... Ugandan soldiers have destroyed villages and crops and herded civilians into detention camps in an effort, as Abrams put it, 'to dry up the civilian sea that the guerrillas swim in' ... Some analysts suspect that the army...
...Rosty's Scandal House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski was beset with new questions about alleged improper financial dealings. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the Democrat's payroll included ghost employees who either did not work for him or had not done so in years. The wife of a Chicago alderman, for instance, reportedly received a salary for five years after quitting her job in 1987. Rostenkowski is already under investigation by a federal grand jury for allegedly trading free stamps for cash at the House Post Office and allegedly using campaign funds and his office account...
Overshadowed by the personnel issues that beset AAAS, several hugely important developments within the department have gone largely unnoticed. The most crucial of these is the department’s increased focus on the African side of AAAS, which inspired a formal name change...
Iranian diplomats downplayed the episode. Nonetheless, Iranian political scientist Hadi Semati told TIME Ahmadinejad's reversal of the conciliatory tone of former reformist President Mohammed Khatami risks escalating the ongoing showdown with the West over Iran's nuclear-enrichment ambitions. With his administration beset by an internal power struggle between military hard-liners and religious conservatives, Ahmadinejad may have been trying to bolster his standing with radicals. "The restraints are all off," says a Western diplomat in Tehran. "[The President] is remote-controlled by the very people who are responsible for all the bad stuff." Says a Tehran reformist...
...Iranian diplomats downplayed the episode. Nonetheless, Iranian political scientist Hadi Semati told TIME Ahmadinejad's reversal of the conciliatory tone of former reformist President Mohammed Khatami risks escalating the ongoing showdown with the West over Iran's nuclear-enrichment ambitions. With his administration beset by an internal power struggle between military hard-liners and religious conservatives, Ahmadinejad may have been trying to bolster his standing with radicals. "The restraints are all off," says a Western diplomat in Tehran. "[The President] is remote-controlled by the very people who are responsible for all the bad stuff." Says a Tehran reformist...