Word: neos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, the world's media were flooded with bloody, unforgettable images from South Africa: two white, neo-Nazi militiamen -- wounded in a gun battle with black troops in the black homeland of Bophuthatswana -- were executed in front of a crowd of stunned photojournalists. What was it like to record this brutal scene? Time's Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod asked several of the photographers involved...
...cover instead of turning around, coldly analyzing the situation and shooting a great execution picture . . . Why didn't we help them? I personally appealed to a policeman, 'Take your prisoners and lock them up.' But some ((other)) poor policeman had just discovered one of the bodies that the ((neo-Nazis)) shot, a civilian. He was angry and just said, 'F--- it,' and shot them . . . Inside, a voice is screaming 'My God!' But it is time to work. Deal with the rest later...
...licks in the middle range, Watson with veritable sheets of sound wailing, and Jackson with a mature and noticeably improved opening solo. Running alongside, bassist Richard Reid was consistent and swung well, while drummer Louis Hayes' creative intensity locked with Williams' comping style. Williams' own solo included everything from neo-bop lines to booming bass octaves with his left hand, putting his own mark on the tune...
...Bophuthatswana -- an ersatz nation created by the South African engineers of apartheid -- the two men in khaki lay bleeding on Friday beside their bullet-riddled Mercedes. A third, stretched out beside the car, was dead from gunshot wounds. "Please help us!" pleaded Fanie Uys, a member of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, who was hit in the leg. "Please!" cried Alwyn Walfaart, hands outstretched. "Can somebody just get us an ambulance?" Moments later, a black soldier stepped forward. Before a stunned group of news photographers and TV crews, he calmly executed the men with an automatic rifle...
Complaints like one last week from Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell about Russia's "neo-imperial ambitions" provoke ferocious indignation in Moscow, particularly among those who feel Russia has been left standing penniless and irrelevant at the edge of the world stage. "People are sick of the Puerto Rico-ization of Russian foreign policy," says Vladlen Sirotkin of Moscow's Diplomatic Institute. "For too long, we have kept the West under the impression that a positive foreign policy is when we go along with everything the West does...