Word: fear
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...Pristina during the country's fight for independence in the '90s, when Serbian Security Forces carried out a campaign of repression and violence against Kosovo's ethnic Albanians. And while the violence is over, the memories are still painfully fresh. "Not long ago, I used to live in constant fear of the police," she says. "You would be scared that they'd see your passport and you'd get beaten...
...Today, the term “Dover Test,” for the Air Force base in Dover, Del., where the coffins arrived, came to indicate a test of the public’s tolerance for rising casualties in Vietnam. The modern ban came out of a fear that these kinds of images would influence public opinion on warfare. The banning of media photography of soldiers’ caskets because of such political considerations deprives the public of the true knowledge of the human costs of war. Such bans also do a disservice to our nation’s soldiers...
...vested interest in collaborative action when deciding where to move the detainees. When possible, it should transfer prisoners to their countries of origin or other states to diffuse responsibility and rescue its old reputation for diplomatic teamwork. Of course, not all of the prisoners can return home for fear of mistreatment and torture: 17 Chinese Uighurs, Libyans, and Uzbeks captured by bounty hunters come to mind...
...Indeed, the summit was hastily convened after Sarkozy made jingoistic noises last month about pulling French car-making operations out of eastern Europe. The beleaguered eastern members fear 'Old Europe' is on a wayward drift from the E.U.'s core principles of a single market, which could leave 'New Europe' abandoned in the economic vortex...
...returned in 2005 after he won a presidential election. "This is the final reckoning of accounts between two personalities who always fought each other," Antonio Mazzitelli, regional director for West Africa for the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, told TIME by phone from Senegal. "The fear I have is that it could generate an ethnic crisis...