Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...built from relatively common electrical components. Though time consuming and unreliable, it nonetheless fooled American intelligence officials, who scoured the Iraqi desert with satellites for signs of more modern enrichment plants. Without the help of an Iraqi defector who turned up unannounced at American lines in northern Iraq last March, the U.S. would still be underestimating Saddam's nuclear potential...
...month effort to bring stability to Northern Ireland ended abruptly last week as talks among political leaders of the province's majority Protestant and minority Catholic communities collapsed. Negotiations had barely begun when the leaders fell out over procedural issues, such as where meetings would be held and who would act as chairman...
...final straw came when the Protestant unionists vowed to walk out unless British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Peter Brooke, who initiated the peace plan, canceled a July 16 meeting with the Irish Foreign Minister that is part of a 1985 accord giving Dublin a role in running Northern Ireland. The unionists oppose the Republic of Ireland's participation, and to avoid a showdown, Brooke called off the peace talks. As the province entered the volatile summer season of Protestant parades, there seemed little hope of salvaging Brooke's plan...
...late 1960s, Keen left academia and eventually moved to Northern California, becoming a contributing editor to Psychology Today. Over the past 20 years he has been conducting seminars on personal mythology. Fire in the Belly is his 12th book, and he regards it as another effort in his lifelong exploration of modern mythology, in this case, the mythology of manhood...
...Their cousins, the Orjuela Caballero brothers, are also major dealers in Los Angeles. DEA agents say the Urdinola brothers work somewhat independently from the rest of the Cali consortium, with their own trafficking and money- laundering organizations across the U.S. They are linked to large lab operations in the northern Cauca Valley and, according to DEA intelligence, are suspected of assassinating a number of Colombians...