Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such behavior by the ruling parties, combined with the grass-roots nationalism stirred by years of brutal fighting, has left it all but certain that the very people who perpetrated the war will gain recognition as its postwar rulers. Add to that the absolute control of the media on each of the three sides and victory for the micronationalists seems inevitable. "We're under a blockade," says a Socialist party Serb opposition candidate, Zivko Radisic. "In the state media, you won't find a single word about us except to call us traitors and communists...
...behaving badly and of Native Americans making their last, futile stands against the invaders--like Chief Joseph's 1877 flight toward Canada with his hitherto peaceful Nez Perce tribe, which launched deadly raids against the pursuing Army troops while trying to outrun them, only to surrender, in the brutal cold of Montana, just 40 miles from the border. Yet the series does not ignore complexities (the inter-tribal hatreds, for example), and the matter-of-fact tone of its Native American spokespeople (particularly the mellifluous novelist N. Scott Momaday) is largely free of sentimentality and moral hauteur...
...faraway realm rival clans play a brutal game called buzkashi, in which horsemen fight over a dead goat and drag its carcass across a finish line. Badshah Khan (Amitabh Bach-chan), noble chief of his clan, seems destined to win this fierce match, when the veil falls from the face of his main rival and--Allah be praised!--it is a beautiful woman, Benazir (Sridevi). What can our smitten hero do but let Benazir win the race and, to prove his love, lead his warriors in an ecstatic production number...
...clearly to try to salvage his reputation as a political architect. Still, his perception of the role he played seemed revealing, and you can judge for yourself on page 32. His wife Eileen McGann, a noted lawyer, was much more willing to talk about the personal aspects of the brutal week. Both interviews, along with the story our political team put together on this odd saga and the analysis by Robert Wright of the values debate, offer, I hope, telling glimpses into the most amazing intersection of politics and personality we have seen this year...
...equally clear that another round of attacks may be launched. So far, no Iraqi planes have taken up the challenge. The United States launched the missile attacks after Iraqi forces went into action last weekend, supporting one Kurdish faction against another in a military campaign the U.S. condemns as brutal. While international condemnation of Iraq's actions has been strong, support for the U.S. retaliation has been mixed. Britain, Germany and Israel approve of the U.S. move, while France and sometime Iraqi ally Russia deplore the missile strikes. The most telling effect of international disapproval is the hold...