Word: commited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quick-reaction force based in Zaire or Tanzania that could intervene "in the event of a sudden deterioration of the situation" has so far met with only a lukewarm response. Western governments, wary of repeating the high-profile failure of the intervention in Somalia, are reluctant to commit foreign troops to a country with minimal strategic or commercial interests--and so far with few TV scenes of horror broadcast to prick the world's conscience. Western officials note, moreover, that the Burundian army and members of the coalition government oppose the idea. Even prominent Hutu moderates, including the country...
...Russian presidential election scheduled for June. He was responding to the results of December's vote for the Russian parliament, the Duma, in which most successful candidates had campaigned as opponents of the measures with which Chubais was associated. The American government was thus, in effect, urging Yeltsin to commit political suicide...
...delays shouldn't affect the distribution of Harvard awards. Harvard is more immune to federal uncertainty than other institutions because it is able to commit more of its own money to aid programs, Miller says...
...manage to reach bipartisan agreement on a $265 billion defense bill, which President Clinton is expected to sign, after vetoing an earlier effort last month. In the new legislation, Congress dropped three provisions the President could not accept: a missile defense system, restrictions on the President's power to commit American troops to United Nations missions and a requirement that he request new funds for any overseas military actions...
...issues to their precinct commanders.) The Bratton version of community policing is to devise strategies that target specific criminal behavior. Special squads are dispatched to hit high-crime hot spots, while others track down illegal guns. Precinct detectives now interrogate suspects not just about the crimes they may have committed but also about other gun and drug dealers they know. Eventually, Bratton believes, all the policies begin to dovetail, and crime drops through the floor. "Most criminals commit multiple crimes," he says. "We're processing crime data faster than ever before, so we can identify patterns early and stop them...