Word: conflict
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...territory, fighting and suffering at elevations of up to 18,000 ft. He is a Pakistani soldier, and this is his account of the combat now under way in Kashmir. India and Pakistan have fought over the region since 1947, when Pakistan became a separate nation. This spring the conflict flamed again. Pakistani officials insist it was started by India, but this soldier's story suggests Pakistan was first to move. The 30-year-old soldier returned to Pakistan in mid-June for reasons he wouldn't specify. Badly sunburned from exposure, he spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity...
...wherever possible. "Conventional wisdom is that Gore?s interests will stand in the way of doing much of anything on foreign policy," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "On the other hand, President Clinton has his legacy to think about. It?s too early to tell how any conflict between the two on Cuba will be resolved...
...short term, Russia?s partisan preference might actually suit NATO by persuading Serbs to stay and helping preserve Kosovo?s multi-ethnic character. But the Kosovo conflict has dramatically altered the atmosphere of NATO-Russian relations. "What Boris Yeltsin calls ?the march on Pristina? is being hailed in Russia as a great military victory and as a sign that Russia ?- however pathetically ?- can stand up to NATO," says Meier. And just last week Moscow set alarm bells ringing in NATO countries with a massive military exercise ?- including provocative bomber flights into Western airspace ?- designed to simulate repelling an attack from...
...process. Republicans and loyalists meeting with Blair and Republic of Ireland prime minister Bertie Ahern Wednesday in Belfast have until midnight to find their way around an impasse over disarmament. If they fail, so does last year?s Good Friday Agreement, to which both sides in the decades-old conflict signed on. That might bring President Clinton back in on the peace process. Last year the President invited both parties for talks at the White House to prod them into the deal, and he offered on Tuesday to intervene personally to save the agreement. Blair and Ahern have grounds...
...opposition activity." In addition, the opposition is bedeviled by the divisions in its ranks. Vuk Draskovic, the opposition leader of the 1996 protest movement who later went into Milosevic?s cabinet as deputy prime minister -- and was later fired for his dissenting views at the height of the Kosovo conflict -- dismissed Tuesday?s protest as the work of small parties of no influence. Such divisions may encourage Milosevic to pursue his trademark divide-and-rule politics. Then again, with the start of winter only a few months away, the citizens of a broken country may yet be galvanized into acting...