Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much as one third of its population in 24 years of trying to subdue East Timor. International pressure forced Jakarta to agree to the independence referendum, but the government fears that losing East Timor would simply spur secessionist movements inside Indonesia ? which, after all, is an archipelago of diverse ethnic, religious and linguistic identities united only by the fact that they were once all colonized by the Dutch. With anti-independence militias appearing to be preparing to launch a bloodbath, the people of East Timor may again pay a heavy price for Indonesia?s insecurity...
...only 27 years ago that his crazy volatility ignited The Godfather. Now he's almost beamish as a wary fixer. He's still funny, but his new characterization, like the success of The Sopranos and Analyze This, reminds us how quickly we have converted palpable menace to pure ethnic comedy. Is this progress? Not really. But in the context of Mickey Blue Eyes it's easy to fuhgeddaboutit...
...computer. The intelligence official, however, said there is an important difference. Deutch's fault, he said, was composing classified documents on an unsecured terminal. No downloading was involved. As for the Lee case, ROBERT VROOMAN, former head of counterintelligence at the Los Alamos Weapons Laboratory, charged last week that ethnic bias led investigators to focus on the Asian American. But officials say Vrooman helped compose the original suspects list (which, apart from Lee and his wife, included one other Asian and nine Caucasians) and made his new claim only after being subject to disciplinary action...
...capability and potential," reiterating Washington?s message that Kosovo was now the U.N.?s to lose. Although the limited resources available to the international body have plagued its relief, administrative and civilian policing operations, the fundamental obstacle to winning the peace in Kosovo remains the ethnic violence that has continued unabated despite the presence of the NATO-led peacekeeping force...
...whose campaign for independence was left in limbo after NATO took control of the province, have made the traditionally pro-Serb Russian forces the target of their anger over the past two months. The Russians have been furious both about attacks on their own personnel and over the continuing ethnic cleansing targeted against the province?s dwindling Serb population. "If there?s a concerted attack on the Russian forces in Kosovo now, they?ll likely return fire with interest," says Meier. And while that might be exactly what KLA hard-liners want, it could make the Kosovo peacekeeping mission...