Word: derail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasons for the hysteria are uncertain. Diplomats and fearful foreign residents believe the rumors are being deliberately spread to incite violence and derail the civilian government's fast-moving peace negotiations with leftist guerrillas of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, who have fought a 33-year civil war. In recent years hundreds of human-rights observers and peace supporters -- the majority from the U.S. and Europe -- have flocked to Guatemala to work with and help protect local activists. Some conservatives and editorialists have called for these foreigners to be thrown out of the country...
French prosecutors insist that nothing can derail the judicial process at this point. Yet they admit that a conviction could set off diplomatic reverberations -- and, perhaps, even a replay of the September 1986 bombing wave that left 12 dead and at least 250 injured in Paris...
...assailant was then beaten to adeath. Israeli authorities said some 40 Palestinians died; a score more were killed by the army and more than 250 wounded in widespread rioting that followed throughout the occupied territories and in Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin vowed that the incident would not derail the peace process. Insisting that the rampage was the work of a lone "lunatic" -- though some victims say more than one gunman was involved -- Rabin phoned P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat with an apology: "I am ashamed as an Israeli that such a horrible incident took place here." Arafat called...
Acts o terror such as this strive to derail the peace process, and undermine confidence in Israel's resolve for peace...
...decided to have peace," Peres said."Nothing will derail us from this decision anddetermination... We are not playing games...