Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that he will peacefully step aside is belied by the name he took for himself several years after he seized power in the 1960s: Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga (the all powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, shall go from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake...
...their passion for negotiated settlements, Vance and Owen have forgotten that leaders like Milosevic view negotiations as solely a means of continuing their conquest. The peace talks are convenient for the Serbian leader now because his forces have already captured two-thirds of Bosnia. Now, he is looking for a way to secure those gains while defusing the pressure for military action...
...Juan Jose Junquera y Mato (Rizzoli; $125). Pre-Christian Rome, the Muslim conquest, the age of Christian Kings, the Napoleonic era, the modern epoch -- Spanish style is long and wide enough to embrace all periods. This landmark book covers every significant design. Its descriptions are brief, but Roberto Schezen's photographs speak volumes...
...make some of the killers ashamed of what they are doing. In an ornate ceremonial room painted toxic green, Wiesel, wonder rabbi out of Auschwitz, sits side by side with Izetbegovic, whom the nationalist Serbs see as the spearhead of a fundamentalist Muslim state, the nightmare of Islamic conquest drifting up out of the 14th century from the Battle of Kosovo, which locked the Serbs into 500 years of Turkish rule. Gunshots outside. No one even blinks. Part of the mise-en-scene...
Employees braced for a take-no-prisoners conquest. Together with president Jack Smith, 54, the former head of GM's profitable overseas operations, Smale and the board seemed poised to purge Stempel's top lieutenants and embark on a sweeping new round of layoffs to restructure the former flagship of American industry. "GM is spooked and in complete turmoil," said a longtime supplier. "It is faced with total upheaval caused by an outside force -- something that once was unthinkable...