Word: nationalist
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...course, Macedonia and Kosovo are hardly unconnected. The Macedonian insurgency originated inside Kosovo, where NATO is supposed to be in charge of security. But the alliance has shown little inclination to effectively police the activities of Albanian nationalist guerrillas there, and it appears to have woken up rather late to the fact that those guerrillas were exporting an insurgency into Macedonia under NATO's very noses. Although it then moved very quickly to press the authorities to address the political grievances on which the insurgency was feeding, it did little to create disincentives for ethnic-Albanian nationalists to choose...
...NATO spokesmen insist, and they'll stay only 30 days. If the guerrillas choose to hang onto their weapons and the fighting starts up again, the Western troops will simply pack up and go home - possibly taking with them whatever credibility NATO may retain as a deterrent to further nationalist aggressions in the Balkans...
...people reared in the increasingly prosperous EU culture are increasingly disdainful of separatist struggles, much less those pursued by arms. The hard men of the IRA and ETA are relics of a past era, but it's not hard to see why they cling to that past. When a nationalist movement moves from insurgency towards politics, the power tends to shift from those who're good with their fists to those who're good with words. And as the current standoff over the long-silent IRA weapons shows, the hard men are sometimes reluctant to cede the role they play...
...daughter of a nationalist Chinese air force pilot, Tsung has an MBA from the University of Missouri and finance experience at Columbia Pictures and in California city government. After returning to Taiwan in 1999, Tsung, 52, was tapped to run the national airline. She has introduced stock options and appealed to skeptical pilots in the Sichuan dialect that many of them speak. And she's credited for increasing profits 95% in the first quarter...
...Ideally, the case would come down to police work, lawyers' arguments, witness testimony and an impartial judiciary. But this is Okinawa in 2001, and a black American serviceman stands accused of raping a Japanese woman. Which means an already murky case has been churned into a raging whirl by nationalist politics, screaming media, a half-century of dammed-up local grief and?roiling unmentioned beneath it all?an undercurrent of racism...