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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during the 30-year conflict and are understandably wary. But optimism is suddenly once again the order of the day now that the Ulster Unionist Party has voted to allow its enemy, Sinn Fein, into the region's nascent government without first making a least a token effort to disarm its military wing, the IRA. The condition, which has already rubbed Sinn Fein members the wrong way, is that the IRA will have to begin disarming by January 31. "We've jumped," Unionist leader David Trimble said in a statement aimed at Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. "You follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland Protestants Call the IRA's Bluff | 11/28/1999 | See Source »

...make pictures, but because today's directors feel crushed by technological gimmickry. The camerabatics of the French New Wave, the anti-dramatic films of Bresson and Antonioni, the nonlinear experiments of the American avant garde--each of these was a revolutionary call to arms. Dogme is a call to disarm, to strip away the veneer, to walk without crutches supplied by Industrial Light & Magic. Unabashedly reactionary, Dogme loves innocence; it aims for a primitive purity. "Filmmakers and filmgoers are yearning for something else," says cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, who shot The Celebration, Mifune and julien donkey-boy. "But not necessarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Putting on the Dogme | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...necessary measures." The first Australians will arrive by the weekend to head up a multinational force of 8,000 drawn mostly from Asian countries. And ending the violence in the territory will be their most dangerous mission since the Vietnam war. The operation's primary task will be to disarm the anti-independence militias who, assisted by elements of the Indonesian military, continued Wednesday with a campaign of terror against a civilian population that also now faces mass starvation. The mission's success will depend in large part on the fate of the Indonesian military units in East Timor - there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australians Face a Tough Task in East Timor | 9/15/1999 | See Source »

...send in armed peacekeepers, they are not likely to arrive until later this fall. That leaves the job of restraining the militias in the hands of Indonesian forces. They have shown little inclination to stop the killing. "I don't think it would be difficult for the police to disarm the militias, but their hearts aren't in it," says a Western official. "[The militias] were brought in by the military, and there are emotional attachments preventing [the police] from taking action." Those bonds are costing lives every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Timor's Violent Birth | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...TIME chief of correspondents Marguerite Michaels doesn?t give peace much of a chance until all the soldiers lay their guns down. "I?m not optimistic," she says, "because there are too many cooks in this stew, and none of them have answered the question of how to disarm the Interahamwe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Peace Pipe Dream in the Congo | 8/31/1999 | See Source »

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