Word: halt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relentlessly shelling Rwandan army positions and closing in on the seat of the interim government in Gitarama, 25 miles southwest of Kigali. Army troops, their morale plummeting, have yet to launch a single counterattack. Despite ongoing cease-fire talks in the capital, the rebels are unlikely to call a halt to the fighting before the government has been routed and the massacres stopped...
...required 650 tons of supplies every day. The supply planners assumed that they would not have to support any U.S. divisions north of the Seine until 120 days after D-day. But within 90 days, 16 divisions were 150 miles beyond the Seine. Both Montgomery and Bradley had to halt to let supplies catch...
Which brings me to the strange but out standing feature of this otherwise funny piece. Martin has plenty of personal agendas in this play that appear suddenly and without grace, bringing the action to a grinding halt. The most obvious example features Einstein announcing that women (apparently as political entity) have on place in science. Germaine, the waitress, takes Einstein's comment as potentially sexist, whereupon Einstein proclaims loudly and victoriously that science has nothing to do with gender issues. Fair enough, but the study of it certainly does, and it was towards this theme that the exchange had progressed...
...problem Clinton's directive addresses. The horrifying slaughter is another explosion in a mainly ethnically based civil war that outsiders understand imperfectly if at all -- and therefore do not know how to solve. No one is even certain what sort of diplomatic efforts might persuade the Rwandan factions to halt the bloodletting. The only obvious alternative to traditional diplomacy would be for a well-equipped army to move into Rwanda -- shooting if necessary -- and force a cease-fire. But no one is volunteering for such an army...
...reform he loosened controls on the press and began negotiating to allow competing parties into the government. But many thought he was still dragging his feet. In 1990 the exiled Tutsi of the Rwandan Patriotic Front invaded from Uganda and launched a civil war that came to a halt only last August with the Arusha accords, which mandated that power be shared. Tutsi would finally be allowed into a national-unity government, and a new army of both Hutu and Tutsi soldiers would enforce the peace...