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...Democratic Front's position on Eritrea is much like Washington's: it endorses the right of the Eritreans to their referendum but wants a unified Ethiopia and so hopes that the vote, if held, goes against secession. As the day of reckoning approaches, tensions between the two groups may erupt. Already, there are strains between Meles and Issaias, who have been friends for 16 years. Issaias is upset that Meles succumbed to U.S. pressure to promise elections within a year. Meles is angry that Issaias reneged on his original pledge to participate in the transitional government to be established...
...South perpetrated by the carpetbaggers hurt Blacks as well as whites. By not using the economic influence they brought with them to forge a just peace and an equitable enfranchisement of all Southern citizens (including women, Ms. Kerrigan), they ensured that the bitterness which festered throughout the occupation would erupt once they and the federal troops left. Over 125 years later, that bitterness seems to persist, rearing its ugly head not only in the South, but in places all over the country--like Los Angeles, for instance...
...Baath Party has imposed stability through control of the army and a network of secret police and informers that penetrates every niche of Iraqi society. If that is swept away, simmering tensions between the Shi'ite Muslims (55% of the population), Sunni Muslims (20%) and Kurds (25%) could conceivably erupt into a communal bloodbath, fragmenting the country into another Lebanon...
When it comes time for March Madness to erupt, look for the Tigers to enjoy an ever higher seeding than the 14th position it captured in last year's NCAA tournament, when they just missed knocking off Arkansas...
...fiscal tug-of-war may erupt between the statehouse and Massachusetts local governments in the wake of President Bush's proposal last week to transfer federal aid from local municipalities to the states, city officials said last week...