Word: civilianized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Danilewitz and Nelson recount at length Arafat's history of terrorism and berate Harvard for, in their extravagant parlance, wining and dining a monster. After much mention of blood-stained hands, blood-drenched carpets, "bloody exercises in civilian warfare" and the "bloodshed of his all-too-recent career," they declare that Harvard has unpardonably stepped over the boundary between pursuing peace with Arafat and legitimizing...
With a meeting in Moscow postponed by Yeltsin's illness, the leaders of Bosnia's warring parties prepared for the U.S.-sponsored talks set for this week in Dayton, Ohio. One hopeful sign: the first civilian convoy to reach Sarajevo since the Bosnian war began in 1992 traveled through Serb-held territory with a welcome cargo of flour and cement. A less hopeful sign: in Croatia, President Franjo Tudjman said that if the final slice of Croatian territory held by Bosnian Serbs is not relinquished through negotiation by the end of November, the Croatian army will move to retake...
...Yasser Arafat was catapulted into the international spotlight even before the advent of his brainchild, the "Intifada." Scarcely five years after the adoption of the Camp David Accords, the first honest effort at Middle East peace, this terrorist-turned-Harvard lecturer was coordinating the most effective, bloody exercises in civilian warfare since the end of the Second World...
...current work centers on strategic and conventional arms control and on how technologies are generated, diffused and applied in civilian and military contexts," according...
Surely one of the oddest features of the plan is the proposal for redressing the region's lopsided balance of power. The U.S. intends to ask the Bosnian Serbs to give up some of their heavy weapons; if they don't, the Americans want to use soldiers and civilian contractors to arm and train the Bosnian Muslim army. The Administration seems convinced that troops can do this and still remain evenhanded peacekeepers; critics say it's the fastest way to destroy the perception of neutrality, and the surest strategy for provoking the Serbs and Croatians. Perry, Christopher and Shalikashvili seemed...