Word: horning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...held off on Somalia to avoid accusations of using military muscle for political gain. But Bush, in defending the no-fly zone in southern Iraq, threatened action anyway. Repelling Iraqi aggression was "right." It's more likely that Bush hesitated for the polls' sake and then intervened in the Horn of Africa because he thought historians would like...
Somalia is not just a humanitarian disaster but a threat to peace in the region. Refugees are pouring into Kenya and Ethiopia, straining the fragile social, political and economic structures there. Until recently, the world seemed barely to care. The Horn of Africa is no longer the cockpit of East- West competition that it was during the cold war. In this respect too, Somalia has been a black hole -- a dark spot in the universe of the big powers' strategic concerns...
SOMALIA, A SICKLE-shaped expanse on the Horn of Africa, stretches across an unforgiving desert, arid and commanding. For centuries nomads have crossed and recrossed the territory in search of food and water. Akin in language and religion, this homogeneous people should have been destined to live in unity, without the tribal strife that tears apart other African countries. But limited natural resources and internal disputes have historically kept stability at a distance, and the clans of Somalia have regularly battled one another into a state of anarchy...
...announced so abruptly by George Bush, America's mission to the Horn of Africa is intended to be a quick fix, a jolt of military muscle to make the country safe for humanitarian aid. Once the so-called secure environment for relief operations ordained by last week's Security Council resolution has been achieved, U.S. troops are supposed to hand over their responsibilities to a smaller, traditional force of U.N. peacekeepers, not yet formed or financed. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater even suggested that the U.S. military operation could be over by Inauguration...
Members of the orchestra are similarly selfless. While the musical accompaniment is crucial and certainly adequate in this production, it is not a memorable aspect of the performance. Indeed, some members of the orchestra were seen yawning in between cymbal claps or horn toots...