Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unarmed Tutsi civilians, most of them landholders, are bearing the brunt of the ethnic cleansing. Despite decades of peaceful coexistence with local Hutu, at least 50,000 Tutsi have been forced to flee since 1995, most to squalid refugee camps just across the Rwandan border. In the Masisi highlands, two small groups of Tutsi remain. Desire Gaspira, 40, a veterinary nurse born in the area, is among them. "Before, Tutsi and Hutu worked together," he said last month. "We drank together. We were brothers. Now we are enemies." In nearby Goma a Tutsi aid worker explained the dilemma facing...
...Reagan Administration believed that the 50-year-old circuit court of appeals judge was the perfect candidate to lead a new conservative majority on the high court into the 21st century. That he was an Italian-American father of nine whose appointment would please an ethnic constituency was a bonus. At the time, Chicago law professor Geoffrey Stone predicted in the ABA Journal that his former associate's collegial spirit would help build consensus among the Justices: "He has the personal skills, intelligence, patience and manner to work out compromises and find common ground...
...airborne commander in Afghanistan, Tbilisi and the former Soviet republic of Moldova, he was famous for using force first and asking questions later, if at all. His troops wielded shovels to crack civilian skulls in rebellious Georgia and let fly with heavy artillery to protect Russian separatists from ethnic Moldovans. He was also fairly insubordinate. "He smashed the Russian army tradition of servility to superiors," says Colonel Victor Baranets, a staff officer at the Defense Ministry. "He calls a spade a spade and a scoundrel a scoundrel." That earned him so much respect that, according to military analyst Shlykov...
...increasingly felt across the country, resulting from the unchecked avarice of the wealthy and their apparent lack of compassion for the poor who are reacting with disguntlement. The business sector is bigger, stronger and more intrusive in people's lives than at any time in America's history. Ethnic and racial tensions are also rising. Internationally, for the first time in this decade, the United States is confronted with the prospect of a possible menace from the East. In such an unpredictable world, an astute president with a keen sense of the urgency of the moment and with a steady...
...other distinction between power and influence: a list of the most influential people in America reflects at least some of the nation's racial and ethnic diversity and includes both men and women. But for now, any inventory of the people who really pull the levers of power is topped by white men in suits. The President and the Federal Reserve Board chairman, the leaders of Congress, the chiefs of industry and communication--these are the men who can, in the end, still dictate where money is spent, how troops and workers get deployed, which programs and movies are distributed...