Word: interventionism
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Russian forces dropped bombs and advanced toward the heart of Chechnya amid fierce shelling today, after the separatist republic snubbed a Saturday ultimatum from Moscow to drop their arms and the effort to open peace talks failed Sunday. While Russian warplanes set a gas refinery on fire in a bombing...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, meanwhile, is still dodging political volleys from domestic opponents of the intervention. One notable exception: ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who today said: "If you have gangrene, you have to amputate the limb."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board.
Other remote Muslim enclaves would be vulnerable if fighting escalated, but Serb forces in the Bosnian republic have dwindled through desertion. According to best estimates, only about 80,000 Serb fighters remain active in the republic, but they lack sufficient fuel and are stretched thin. Though they outgun the Bosnian...
Yeltsin's fiction of noninvolvement vanished last week. The causes: a botched coup and POWS in danger. A coalition of anti-Dudayev forces had rolled into Chechnya's capital of Grozny in late November only to be repelled by Dudayev loyalists, who claim to have destroyed 20 tanks and killed...
In case you didn't infer this from the subtitle, Poisoned Ivy promises a pretty big story. After all, few would believe mere mortals could ruin Harvard Law School. To make even the ivy wither from a monolith of such enormity would require divine intervention at the very least.