Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...review the pattern: a bomb explodes on a civilian bus, leaving dozens of people wounded and killed. The Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority condemn the act. The occupied territories are then sealed off while the country recovers and the victims are mourned...
...Nation of Islam a cool billion to expand its role in electoral politics? (The money has yet to be delivered.) Or his plea to Nigerian human-rights advocates to give strongman General Sani Abacha three more years to fulfill his long-delayed promise to return the country to civilian rule? Moses, Farrakhan explained to the Nigerians, was also a dictator, and there are times when "stern discipline" is needed--presumably including the detention without trial of hundreds of pro-democracy activists and the execution on trumped-up charges of opposition leaders like Ken Saro-Wiwa. Farrakhan also praised the government...
...Serb reaction there is likely to be the same. The exodus points up some potentially serious flaws in the Dayton peace agreement, says Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "The Dayton agreement is made up of two contradictory halves. The military part divides the country and the civilian part tries to reconstruct and reunify it. The problem is that Dayton's civilian measures are not strong enough to unify and maintain Bosnia. It is not clear, however, what measures one could have come up with to effectively unify Bosnia...
Signs of Islamicization can also be seen in civilian life. Koran schools have begun to open all across Muslim-controlled Bosnia, mosques enjoy bigger attendance than ever, and imams vociferously condemn those who persist in drinking alcohol and eating pork. But does all this mean that Bosnia is turning into a fundamentalist state...
...extraordinary, in fact, that in briefing Clinton in Washington last week, Admiral Leighton Smith, NATO's Bosnia commander, hinted at "moving people out of there" before the mission's scheduled wrap-up in December. But while Smith can claim success for the military side, the civilian operation is another story. The civilian accords are plagued by a lack of cash and endless Balkan bickering. This is disturbing because the accords cover elections, refugee resettlement and reconstruction--all of which are crucial to giving Bosnia a stable peace. "The civilian part of Dayton is the test of our success or failure...