Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Under the Clinton administration global warming has been very important," Falkenrath says. Since the cold war ended, research has turned away from arms control to internal conflict, ethnic conflict, terrorism and Middle East and Asian security...
...Today?s announcement appears to suggest that the PA is declaring war on Hamas, says Hamad, and the Islamic organization will respond by attacking Israel to embarrass Arafat. ?Cracking down on Hamas may impress the U.S. and Israel, but it puts the PA in conflict with a significant portion of the Palestinian population,? says Hamad. Even if the PA has declared the Sharif case closed, that means little if they fail to convince Hamas -- who are, after all, the ones who do the bombing...
...conflict is hardest on those caught in the cross fire. White House personnel chief Marsha Scott let her frustration boil over Tuesday -- after being subpoenaed for the seventh time in the Whitewater affair. "I don't even know where the Whitewater area is," she told reporters. "This whole process harasses people." Us, most...
...essential first step for African nations is the step back from the edge of famine. The Mozambicans are doing other things right too. Theirs is a people's peace, driven by popular refusal to continue the conflict and a fierce determination to live a normal life. Today political stability--though not much democracy--has been achieved through the government's policy of "no victor, no vanquished." Four years ago, Renamo elected impressive numbers to the national assembly; now it has a stake in running the country, and hostilities find voice mainly as parliamentary debate. Frelimo jettisoned its socialist economic credo...
...discussions of U.S. prices for the first time in decades, as well as the possibility of a string of American budget surpluses unmatched since the Roaring Twenties--and the beginnings of a vigorous debate about whether this warrants a total overhaul of the U.S. tax code. In combination--or conflict--these forces make 1998 look anything but ho-hum and a lot more like the start of a journey into an unexplored world...