Word: impetuses
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...indigenous peasant movement rose up and seized several towns in the southern state of Chiapas, leaving at least 145 dead. On Friday those rebels, who call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army, suspended their deliberations on a peace accord with the government, citing the country's uncertainties. Taking impetus from the revolt, discontented groups rose across the country, staging sit-ins and land grabs. Then two weeks ago, Alfredo Harp Helu, president of Mexico's largest bank, was kidnapped in Mexico City...
...Western leader, least of all the domestically minded Clinton, really wants to start shooting in Bosnia. NATO's caution underlined how the Sarajevo ultimatum was about saving NATO's credibility as much as saving Bosnian lives. But the new peace offensive also had a Russian impetus. Moscow, proudly proclaiming that its clever diplomacy had made air strikes unnecessary, told NATO it would not countenance any military campaign against its fellow Orthodox Serbs...
...guns pull back and the U.N.-brokered cease-fire holds, Sarajevans can draw a confident breath and move around their city in the knowledge that they will not be shot by snipers or blown to pieces. That achievement alone is worth considerable effort, and it could lend impetus to similar settlements for other ostensibly "safe areas" where Muslims are surrounded by both Serbs and Croats...
...wife of Conservative M.P. David Ashby announces that he has left her for another man. Ashby admits to "sharing beds with dozens of men" but not for the purposes of having homosexual relationships. Rather, he places the impetus on the accommodations in "bloody French hotels...
Kerrigan's comeback was done in grand style at a Boston charity benefit, televised by CBS on Feb. 5, called Nancy Kerrigan & Friends. Her program looked clean and vigorous, though her spins still lack impetus. Until then, her recovery was conducted in secrecy. The rink in South Dennis, Massachusetts, where she works, was guarded right up to the roof. But even before the show aired, her coaches, Evy and Mary Scotvold, were ebullient. Kerrigan wanted to hit the ice jumping. But Evy insisted on caution because of scar tissue: "We've had to push it, but we couldn't push...