Word: embarrassments
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...White House tightly controls these press conferences - allowing only two questions - and Bush works hard to embarrass reporters who ask multi-part questions or try to follow-up. But perhaps sensing that his answer was curt and inadequate, the President circled back later after his host had answered another question and added that America had funded and trained African forces to handle situations just like the one in Liberia. "It's a sensible policy for us to continue that training mission," he said, "so that we never do get over-extended." Bush then reasserted his position from yesterday...
...come out. Those who remain, says General Sudi Silalahi, an adviser to the National Security Minister, will be subject to "sweepings." In practice, that means they will probably be shot. Meanwhile, the outmuscled rebels can be expected to draw out the fighting to provoke more atrocities, hoping to embarrass Jakarta into withdrawing its troops. But a continuing conflict also serves the interests of Indonesia's military brass, which sees a chance to regain some of the power it lost with the fall of dictator Suharto five years ago. And President Megawati Sukarnoputri, looking to next year's elections, wants...
...Sadly for the Acehnese, GAM's principal strategy will probably be to goad the military into committing the kind of brutal excesses it perpetrated in East Timor. "They know that they can't win, so they will keep trying to embarrass Jakarta and the army," says Neta Pane, author of the 2001 book GAM: Its History and Strength. He adds: "I was told by a top GAM official that they were going to use Viet Cong tactics, taking off their uniforms and mixing with the ordinary village people. And, of course, that feeds into the army's suspicions?they...
...rule allowing provincial broadcasters to deliver one channel nationally across cable networks. Not content to just retransmit the local crop report, Hunan came up with a slate of all-new programs geared to popular (read: low-brow) tastes. Its leading show, Happy Camper, let celebrities and ordinary folk embarrass themselves by, for instance, dangling from 20-meter cords while tossing basketballs at a hoop. Hunan grew so successful that in 1998 it became the first TV studio to list on a Chinese stock market...
...We’re not trying to publicly embarrass these board members,” Levy said. “We’re trying to heighten consciousness on campus about these issues...