Word: northerner
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Ongoing. "The Hall of the Northern American Indian...
Carsey's charisma also comes from the fact that "he believes that people are inherently good," says Kocher. "He has a lot of optimism. It's his cheerfulness that keeps him going." Carsey is cheerful, zany, and Canadian. "He's from Northern Ontario, but I don't think that's where his charisma comes from," says Kocher. Yee concurs...
...State Warren Christopher found common ground during a meeting in Washington today, despite disputes overSinn Fein leader Gerry Adams' latest U.S. visit. The two discussed common interests in Bosnia, Russia, Iran and NATO during a breakfast meeting that sidestepped tension over President Clinton's efforts to broker peace in Northern Ireland. Major was not happy when President Clinton allowed Adams to visit the U.S. last month to raise money for the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, the Catholic organization battling with majority Protestants over political power in British-controlled Northern Ireland...
...Kurds who had turned their enclave in northern Iraq and parts of Turkey, Iran and Syria into a virtual semiautonomous state, the infighting is tragic. It is almost entirely the product of animosity between two men leading rival parties who are deeply jealous of each other. "This struggle for power is as personal as it can get," says a Pentagon analyst. When the Kurds held an election for an autonomous government to run Kurdistan in 1992, Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party and Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan split the vote, forcing them to accept coalition rule. Last May open...
...Kurdish leaders ought to be joining hands to secure their independence from an increasingly shaky Saddam, who escaped yet another coup attempt earlier this month. Instead Kurds are killing one another, and northern Iraq and beyond are growing dangerously unstable. Meanwhile, neighboring Turkey, at war with rebellious Kurds in its provinces, was in turmoil last week from rioting by extremist Islamic and nationalist groups. "The area is extremely volatile--all of it," says a worried senior Clinton Administration official. Still more tinder piled up last week after Saddam seized two American civilians who seemed to have accidentally wandered across...