Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nation used to be off limits to the world community. Now the principle of "humanitarian intervention" is gaining acceptance. A turning point came in April 1991, shortly after Saddam Hussein's withdrawal from Kuwait, when the U.N. Security Council authorized allied troops to assist starving Kurds in northern Iraq...
...northern corner of the state, mountainous Fayetteville is as far as it can be from Hope's flat piney woods. There were never many blacks in the clefts and dells where independent farmers tended little plots. This area had little sympathy for the owners of antebellum cotton plantations in the black belt, and many in this Republican stronghold fought for the Union. No wonder the Reconstruction government started the state college in this receptive, if isolated, place...
...friends are drawn step by step into more extensive fighting. Or the allied forces might impose an uneasy truce but then be unable to leave lest the slaughter resume. Says John Steinbruner, director of international studies at the Washington-based Brookings Institution: "This has all the earmarks of Northern Ireland," where British troops have fought for more than 20 years...
...this drama, we are the aliens. We have ventured into the last vast unexplored rain forest on earth -- the unsullied Ndoki region of northern Congo -- a place where the animals do not know what to make of us because they have never seen humans before...
Later conversations with Fay and others disabused me of the notion that the Ndoki would be safe if simply left alone. Only lack of funds has stymied government plans to build a road through northern Congo that would open the region to development. And in 1990 only the arguments of Fay and Japanese researchers, backed by the U.S. government and the World Bank, persuaded Congolese authorities that there were alternatives to giving a logging concession for the Ndoki region to an Algerian-Congolese consortium...