Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fired up. The agency concluded that not only was China selling missiles, but it was also helping Pakistan build a factory to manufacture them. For the CIA, uncovering the plant represented "a first-class piece of spying," says a senior agency official. But because it doesn't want to disrupt the improving relationship, the Clinton Administration doesn't want to deal with this secret...
...Democratic Society (SDS) pickets outside a class taught by Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein. An article he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly justifies unemployment as the result of an inherited lack of mental ability, their leaflets charge. The protesters enter the lecture hall but do not disrupt his talk...
Perhaps the most profound effect the war had on the officers' lives was to disrupt the ordinary progression of a college career...
...beginning with Chile, is the result of joint pressures by the greedy American arms lobby and Chile's money-happy army. The fighter planes Chile seeks have as their possible target Argentina, which is reducing its armed forces to most citizens' delight. The arms race is dangerous and could disrupt the extensive trade between Chile and Argentina, which is the best guarantee of peace. MARIO CASAS ELIA Buenos Aires...
...Kinshasa with orders to negotiate a peace between the government and rebel leader Laurent Kabila and at the same time help to extricate some 100,000 Rwandan refugees from the path of the rebellion. After months of resisting U.N. air evacuation of refugees on the grounds that it would disrupt troop movements, rebel leader Laurent Kabila made an abrupt turnaround Sunday and gave the U.N. just sixty days, starting May 1, to track down and evacuate every last refugee. After Sunday's maiden voyage carried just 40 refugees from Kisangani to their destination in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, Richardson...