Word: melchiors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Israeli and Palestinian officials not part of the official delegation have been holding forth on the acceptablity of compromises that may or may not have been offered. Call them roving freelance international pundits who can't get on "Charlie Rose." Earlier in the week, an Israeli cabinet member, Michael Melchior, was giving interviews in Thurmont, and Hanan Ashrawi, a well-known Palestinian figure, was giving press conferences back in Washington. But the White House drew the line when Limor Livnat, a member of the Likud party, which opposes Barak, showed up to lobby reporters in the press center and complain...
...vocal connoisseurs regard Ben Heppner, 42, as the real tenor of his generation. A beefy, shambling Canadian whom conductor James Levine rightly calls a "phenomenon," Heppner is the first singer in years who has the vocal heft needed for the massive Wagnerian roles that were once owned by Lauritz Melchior. No operatic appearances in 1998 were as eagerly awaited as Heppner's Lohengrin at the Met and Tristan und Isolde at the Seattle Opera, and the critical verdict was passionately positive. Small wonder: the Wagner excerpts included on his latest CD, Ben Heppner Sings German Romantic Opera (RCA Victor...
Burundi's current war has similarly tragic origins. In June 1993, the Tutsi government acceded to international pressure and held the country's first multiparty presidential elections. Hutu turned out in force and elected their first head of state, Melchior Ndadaye. Four months later, elements of the Tutsi military reacted by launching a coup, killing Ndadaye and triggering a bloodbath in which some 50,000 Hutu and Tutsi were slain...
...Rwanda, majority Hutu and minority Tutsi have set upon each other periodically since the two countries gained independence from Belgium in the early 1960s. Neither group has shown much tolerance for the political ambitions of the other. Burundi's current crisis began in 1993, when Tutsi soldiers assassinated Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu and the country's first democratically elected President, after he threatened to bring an end to 30 years of Tutsi domination. The killing triggered an orgy of revenge; some 50,000 Burundians died in 1993 alone. It also spawned a Hutu rebellion--and a Tutsi army crackdown--which...
After gaining independence from Belgium in 1962, Burundi was run largely by Tutsi. But a series of deadly clashes with the Hutu forced the Tutsi-dominated government gradually to share power, even permitting election of the country's first Hutu President, Melchior Ndadaye, in June 1993. That process came to an abrupt halt in October when Ndadaye was murdered in a failed coup by renegade Tutsi troops, who feared the Hutu were grabbing too many civilian jobs and military posts for themselves. In a wave of ensuing reprisals, 100,000 Burundians were killed and 500,000 left their homes...