Word: foment
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...never been face-to-face with this much armed separatist terrorism," he said at his handover ceremony in Ankara. "Our state, nation and security forces will eliminate this threat." Until now, the U.S. has urged Turkey to keep its troops out of northern Iraq so as not to foment a broader war with Iraqi Kurds, who are not currently aligned with the p.k.k. Some Turkish TV and newspaper commentators last week saw Ralston's appointment as an indication that the U.S. was ready to take on the p.k.k. in Iraq unilaterally, as some Turkish politicians had been demanding for years...
...there's one thing the Administration and the detainees agree on, it's that the battle over Gitmo takes place on two levels: in the camp, where prisoners stage hunger strikes and attempt suicide, and in the outside world, where reports of alleged mistreatment foment negative international and domestic reaction, which in turn puts pressure on the White House to close down Gitmo...
...supporters, most of them unemployed former soldiers, in Liberia, which he ruled for seven years, as well as in neighboring Sierra Leone, whose civil war he allegedly fueled by buying diamonds and supplying arms. Many observers fear that Taylor could call on those same loyal men and boys to foment trouble again. "We have a very fragile peace process ongoing," Liberia's Minister of Information Johnny A. McClain told Time. "Liberia does not have an army because we are restructuring our army. We do not have a police force because we are restructuring our police force. So our security...
...refer Iran to the UN Security Council for action over its failure, over a decade, to disclose various aspects of a program Tehran insists is for civilian energy purposes, but which Western governments suspect is a covert bomb program. But many members of the IAEA board are reluctant to foment a confrontation over the issue...
Perhaps the most important difference between the two countries is that South Korea borders on Communist North Korea. The Communist danger makes it very unlikely that the Reagan Administration would abandon the Chun government. "We are not going to try to foment revolt in South Korea," says one State Department official...