Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Now there are rumors of military intervention in Burundi. Talks to arrange power sharing between warring Tutsi and Hutu factions are faltering, economic sanctions have not cooled the fighting and the violence threatens to spill over into Tanzania. Museveni told TIME that before U.S. ambassador Michael Southwick left Kampala at...
In May, a voter referendum approved just that kind of arrangement for Pittsburgh, Pa., but not before a prolonged local struggle, federal intervention and one highly publicized death nearby. Critics of the department say that by the late 1980s, police were out of control. "They were taking people off the...
ATLANTA: As shippers across the country scrambled to find an alternative package delivery system, 185,000 United Parcel Service Teamsters walked off the job at on minute after midnight Monday morning after negotiators failed to agree on a new contract. The strike is expected to upset delivery service to thousands...
ECONOMIC BACKDROP Prior transitions from war to peace were accompanied by painful economic downturns. But the 1950s radically parted with that tradition as a result of massive federal intervention and the fact that the U.S. emerged physically unscathed, and rich, from history's most destructive war. Government helped: the Employment...
The West is watching all this with a skeptical eye. Like it or not, victory in the cold war has given the democratic nations the power to set the world's rules and Washington the presumption to decide who meets them or fails. Communism is discredited, and China has a...