Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leno's guests on Wednesday night were Geena Davis, Jackson Browne and Northern Exposure's Darren Burrows. "And," the Tonight Show host announced with pride in a network promo, "no presidential candidates...
Multiple-choice test for global strategists: if Western military forces intervened in Bosnia, they would face a situation most like a) the Vietnam War, b) Desert Storm, c) Northern Ireland, d) none of the above. Since history rarely repeats itself exactly, the most likely answer is d. But there are enough points of similarity to a and c -- and of dissimilarity to b -- to give pause to the U.S. and Europe...
...over the world, ethnic movements are demanding and frequently getting their own turf, sometimes though not always complete with flag, army, currency and United Nations seat. The secessionist groups range in size from the 50 million citizens of Ukraine to 30,000 Ainu, descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants of northern Japan. They demand "exclusive possession" of two or three small islands in the southern Kuriles -- also claimed by Moscow and Tokyo -- where they can cluster and preserve their culture...
...develop mechanisms to carry it out. The old idea was that outsiders had no business interfering with anything a government might do within its borders to its own people. That principle has been shattered within the past 13 months by two events: the dispatch of a U.N. force to northern Iraq to protect Kurds from massacre by Saddam Hussein's forces (the Kurds have since set up what amounts to an autonomous zone there); and the arrival, however tardy, of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Croatia while the Croats were still fighting to break free from Belgrade...
...violence already has broken out in Tibet, according to reports reaching London. In Europe there are feelings of repression and aspirations toward autonomy, if not independence, among Hungarians in Romania, Turks in Bulgaria and Poles in Lithuania, among others. In Afghanistan civil war could yet pit southern Pashtun against northern Uzbek and Tajik in a conflict that could spill over into neighboring Pakistan and the formerly Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan...