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...forces that are too small to deal with the scale of the problem and therefore vulnerable to attacks and kidnapping, which appears to be exactly what has happened in Sierra Leone," says Dowell. "But it's no simple matter to expand the peacekeeping force, because to control a recalcitrant guerrilla army in hostile terrain would require a military commitment far larger even than what the U.S. undertook in Vietnam, and it's unlikely that the international community will be willing to take that on." In addition, the threadbare economies of countries such as Sierra Leone and the Congo create little...
...always hard to beat a guerrilla army fighting for independence on home ground, but even more so when the insurgents are better armed than the government forces. Sri Lanka found itself forced to declare martial law Thursday following another dramatic defeat at the hands of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who last week took control of the gateway to the disputed Jaffna province, leaving some 40,000 government troops trapped and surrounded. And to make matters worse, India - whose government includes parties from India's Tamil province, and which was eventually asked by Sri Lanka to withdraw the last...
...groups supporting venous causes planned their own events on different days. Spiritual groups organized a vigil on April 9 to call for debt forgiveness for the Third World. Unions held a rally outside Congress Wednesday. Smaller groups like Alabama Artisans for Social Justice, the Anti-Boredom Brigade and the Guerrilla Gardeners found their...
...United States, currently allied with Fujimori in his fight against Shining Path guerrilla warfare, passed a bipartisan resolution early last week that implored Fujimori to maintain the integrity of the electoral process and threatened to "modify its political and economic relations with Peru" should he fail to comply. A few days later, it was announced that Fujimori had fallen short of the required majority by about 20,000 votes...
...constitution allows only two presidential terms, but he found a loophole to permit himself a third, and his supporters in Congress dismissed the constitutional court judges who demurred. But despite the strong public support he won in the early '90s for reining in inflation and facing down two leftist guerrilla insurgencies, many voters have turned against Fujimori. "The economy is stagnating with some 60 percent underemployment in urban areas," says McGirk. "After Fujimori's 10 years in power, many people think he has run out of steam...