Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday U.N. officials in New York City claimed that peacekeeping commander Brigadier General Romeo Dallaire of Canada had brokered a partial cease-fire and that an interim government had been named. But within 24 hours rebel leaders, denying knowledge of the agreement, had renewed their offensive. Meanwhile members of the regular army were still attacking Tutsis and murdering any member of the political opposition they could find...
...Bertrand Aristide in September 1991. Yet even a modicum of money buys a pleasant life-style in Haiti. Ships from Europe keep stores in middle-class Petionville stocked with Italian artichoke hearts and Georges Duboeuf wine from France. Last December the so-called friends of Haiti -- the U.S., France, Canada and Venezuela -- warned the military that they would seek a worldwide U.N. embargo on all commercial goods to Haiti unless progress was made to restore Aristide to power by Jan. 15. That threat proved hollow, however. Desperate to get rid of the Haiti problem without touching off a new exodus...
...reverie was interrupted by the pilot'svoice floating over the cabin, offering us "uneopen bar" to ease our anxieties. One morepiece of luck, we were in a bomb threat in Canada...
...Canada, even the youngest of use arelegal
Trying to forge a global treaty will be especially daunting. Countries with desirable fish off their coasts, including Canada, New Zealand, Argentina and Iceland, point fingers at so-called distant nations, such as Japan, Poland, Taiwan and the European Union countries, for taking too many fish just outside the 200-mile limit. The distant nations, in turn, blame coastal states for poor management inside the boundaries...