Word: disarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...welfare of his troops, and who zealously guards the reputation of his institution. Powell's caution is fine if it consists mainly of rigorous examination of deployments before they begin. (This realism was apparently lacking when the Bush administration committed troops to Somalia without a serious plan to disarm the warlords...
...cost between $500 and $750 and allow police to track stolen vehicles with an electronic signal. But thieves have already come up with devices that can detect whether a car is sending out a tracking signal, allowing them to pass up such cars or locate the tracking device and disarm...
...having turned against Aidid, the U.N. is left with more questions than answers about its future responsibilities. Should it try to disarm all the warlords? Should it prosecute them? Should it conduct national elections? Should it intervene in case of attack? Most important, is Somalia vital enough to any U.N. member state to invest the money, lives and years required to reconstruct the country...
Though the Security Council could authorize military means to disarm or punish Pyongyang, any attempt to use force would be extremely tricky. Bombing a functioning nuclear facility could produce an instant Chernobyl and, probably, retaliation. "We might try to take out their nuclear capability with a scalpel," says a Western analyst in Seoul, "but they would respond with a chain...
...dropped its insistence that Ukraine give up its nuclear weapons before receiving more economic aid; Washington still wants the country to disarm but figures a carrot might work better than a stick...