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...believed to be hiding somewhere in Bosnia, having fled his stronghold in Pale with a coterie of over a hundred guards protecting...
...Northern Ireland. President Clinton will be campaigning this month in Northern Ireland to convince voters in this long-trouble region to approve the American-led peace initiative in an upcoming referendum. If successful, the trio of Haiti, Bosnia and now Northern Ireland would go far in solidifying Clinton's place in history as the peace-making President...
...World Vision have signed Wek up to wake people up to the plight of displaced families in Sudan, her war-torn homeland. She spent her 21st birthday appealing for help for a country where more civilians have died unnecessarily than in the conflicts in Somalia, the former Zaire and Bosnia combined. And while Wek may not be able to list facts and figures, she has something the development pundits don't--apart from great cheekbones. She lived it. "My father passed away when I was 12 because we couldn't get medication for him," says Wek, who fled Sudan shortly...
...political realm, democratic capitalism, having defeated the twin foes of fascism and communism, is likely to face three others. The first is tribalism, as in Bosnia. This is, of course, nothing new. But democracies are often maladroit at dealing with minorities that seek group empowerment. The second challenge will be fundamentalism. Capitalism can be cold, consumption oriented and spiritless, alienating those who feel repelled by its modernity and its materialist values. Some will respond by embracing traditional religions or New Age spirituality, but there is also likely to be, especially in the Islamic world, a more fierce religious challenge that...
That's a grim warning for people in many of the world's flash points, from Cambodia to Mexico to Bosnia. But it is also a call for increased vigilance from the international community and a move away from the widely held view that tribalism is unavoidable. Visiting Rwanda last month, President Clinton acknowledged that the 1994 bloodletting was "certainly not the result of ancient tribal struggles...All over the world, there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed...