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Peacekeepers from eight West African nations used tanks and gunboats to defeat a faction of the former Liberian army that tried to overthrow an interim government; it was the latest outbreak of fighting in Liberia's five-year-old civil war. The attempted putsch came three days after the country's three main warring factions signed a United Nations-approved peace pact...
...addition, Clinton has let his policy be driven by the hard-nosed anti- Castro Cuban exile community in the U.S., or rather the faction of it composed of early exiles, many of whom are grouped in the Cuban American National Foundation. It was after meeting with them at the White House that Clinton followed up his decision to bar the refugees by forbidding U.S. residents to send money to relatives in Cuba and by cracking down on the charter flights by which families could visit those left behind. The moves especially distressed younger and more recent refugees who still have...
That message soon became a recurrent refrain. In 1982, when his latest amour, Magdalena Kopp, a German Red Army Faction member, was arrested in Paris in a car loaded with explosives, Carlos penned a letter to the French embassy at the Hague, stamped with his thumbprints. It warned, "I will take up the matter personally with the French government" unless Kopp and a fellow conspirator were released within 30 days. Two months later, the car bomb went off for which Carlos now stands trial. According to the French daily Le Monde, one of the two lawyers he retained last week...
...zealots. Five days before her surprise appearance in court to face charges of making inflammatory statements, a crowd of 100,000 demonstrators gathered outside the Parliament building in Dhaka to bay for her blood. They branded her "an apostate appointed by imperial forces to vilify Islam." One particularly militant faction threatened to loose thousands of poisonous snakes in the capital unless she was executed...
...unlikely to happen without a terrible fight. The chief reason: N.A.A.C.P. chairman of the board William Gibson, a South Carolina dentist who handpicked Chavis for the job. Gibson, according to an N.A.A.C.P. insider, "has stacked every important committee with his own supporters." In the past, his tightly controlled faction has fended off requests from other board members about the organization's finances, programs and directors. Critics have been branded as "traitors and Uncle Toms" by Gibson and Chavis. "I'd be very surprised if there were an emergency board meeting called over this issue," says an N.A.A.C.P. source who wants...