Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Milosevic's offer of talks, demanding Serb withdrawal as a precondition. But even that, says Calabresi, may not be enough: "Troop withdrawal wouldn't mean much unless Milosevic was prepared to make significant concessions on the political status of Kosovo" -- a notion that sticks in the craw of the nationalist Milosevic, who sent his people to war for a Greater Serbia. So if they're going to avoid another Bosnia debacle, NATO's commanders will need to keep their powder...
...didn't the CIA see India's nuclear tests coming? Because they didn't have the right mindset. The head of an inquest into the intelligence failure blasted agents Tuesday for believing the country's Hindu Nationalist BJP party "would behave as we behave" -- and that they wouldn't live up to their campaign promises, specifically the one about adding nukes to the country's arsenal. As retired admiral David Jeremiah looks set to report to Congress, the spooks thought the Indians would balk at the cost, like a U.S. politician. That's why they didn't spend enough money...
...campaign came to a sudden and tragicend on June 6, 1968, when Kennedy was giving avictory speech after winning the Californiaprimary. While speaking, he was shot and killed byJordanian nationalist Sirhan, a death perceived bymany as sad more for what had been undone, thanfor what had been cut short...
Indeed, some analysts see the nuclear tests as a gesture to B.J.P. hard-liners angry at Vajpayee for yielding on too many of the core issues on the Hindu nationalist agenda. "The party hawks wanted to extract their pound of flesh on the nuclear issue," says Imtiaz Ahmad, a political scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. "They felt too many other concessions were being made by Vajpayee...
...head, migrated to the front (they've moved back to the side for this version). The original 1954 Godzilla, wild and untamable, is physically different from the relatively benign creature that does battle with the triple-headed King Ghidorah in Destroy All Monsters (1968), from the oversize Japanese nationalist who takes on a visiting American ape in King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963) and from the wholesome environmentalist wrestling a mess of sludge in Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (1972). Poor thing. With apologies to Sondheim: "First you're everyone's rough-hide scamp; then the other monster; then...