Word: disarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troops are stationed have found protection as well as food. But security in Somalia is a very, very relative term. The U.S.-led troops have generally stayed inside the main towns rather than venturing into the countryside, and they have negotiated pacts with local warlords rather than trying to disarm their followers. That policy certainly helped avoid casualties: eight U.S. servicemen have been killed in Somalia in five months, no more than would have lost their lives in training accidents if they had stayed home...
What's worse, the ill-timed and poorly managed pursuit of a common strategy can disarm the threat of force as a weapon capable of causing the enemy to retreat. "Which is what some of us have come to think of Chris' mission to Europe," says an Administration official about Secretary of State Warren Christopher's recent Continental tour. Coupled with the President's insistence on a concerted response and the allies' resistance to his options menu, "it's not surprising that the Bosnian Serbs concluded we were bluffing and so voted against the Athens agreement," says this official...
...from 1975 to 1990, California had a higher murder rate than the rest of the country. Meanwhile, tough gun control laws in New York City and Washington, D.C. have done little to reduce violent crime. Gun control has never been shown to significantly reduce crime, but it does disarm law-abiding citizens...
...first half of the action is dominated by Lois Smith as the family's beleaguered matriarch, a woman whose rambling talk can disarm a felon through sheer boredom. The second half is dominated by Pippa Pearthree as the most successful of the clan's three adult daughters, a lesbian lawyer with a taste for vengeance and violence. There are also plenty of laughs for Alexandra Gersten as a daughter forever finding herself, William Youmans as a good- natured but doltish son-in-law prone to getting beaten up (he does an exquisite ballet of pain...
Since 1988 the U.N. has launched 14 peacekeeping operations -- compared with just 13 in the previous 40 years. The latest such venture will send 7,500 peacekeepers to Mozambique to monitor the cease-fire in a 16-year civil war, disarm the fighting factions and organize elections...