Word: disarm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...functioning government. There is a name for such an administration: trusteeship. There is authority for it under the U.N. charter as well as a mechanism within the bureaucracy called the Trusteeship Council. In Cambodia, the U.N. is already overseeing the government in Phnom Penh while it tries to disarm the warring factions and prepare the ground for elections next year...
Should the U.S.-led troops also disarm the war bands? U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali says yes, but Powell calls disarmament only "one method that could be used" and adds that the troops can hardly round up "every last AK-47" in Somalia. So, might the warring clans create anarchy and famine again after the U.S.-U.N. troops leave? The hope is that the combat troops can pacify the country enough for a smaller, "regular" U.N. peacekeeping force to take over. Though the U.S. would like to begin pulling out by Bill Clinton's Inauguration Jan. 20, Secretary...
...only a respite from terror if the U.S. and the United Nations don't formulate a long-term plan for providing political stability in Somalia. President-elect Clinton and President Bush need show some clear leadership on the future handling of this issue. For instance, the U.S. needs to disarm the fighting gangs to make sure violence doesn't break out again...
Clinton went on at the convention to deftly disarm Jackson as a potential troublemaker. Here again, the Arkansan fell into some luck. Jackson was another of the prominent Democrats who decided early on not to run in 1992; had he made the race and come into the convention with the masses of delegates he commanded in 1984 and 1988, he might easily have caused Clinton headaches as splitting as those he gave Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. But with no delegates at all this year, Jackson could rely only on his clout as a senior black leader...
...Republican platform offers kudos of Quaylefor his tough stand against lawyers. It supportsEnterprise Zones in the inner cities and opposeslegislation to limit the proliferation offirearms. "Those who seek to disarm citizens intheir homes are the same liberals who tried todisarm the nation during the Cold War," it reads...