Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feeding begins. Guards select about 20 people from the front rows and steer them toward the food vats, six huge oil barrels cut in half and fitted with wire handles. Working quickly, Somali servers ladle out two large cupfuls of steaming Unimix, a brownish mixture of maize, beans and vegetable oil, for each person. Suddenly, an elderly woman rushes forward, inadvertently knocking the steaming ration from a small girl's wizened hands. The child howls in pain and anger: the gruel is scalding hot (several other children display peeling scars from previous burns), but far worse, the day's only...
...decades, North Korea has relied on its two giant neighbors, the U.S.S.R. and China, for political, economic and military assistance. Now Russia has recognized South Korea, stopped supplying arms to the North and demanded hard currency for its oil shipments. Two weeks ago, to the muted fury of Pyongyang, China too agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Seoul...
...GEORGE BUSH finds recent polls gloomy, he can very well cheer himself up with the rosy sentiments flowing from Kuwait. The President is still vastly popular in the oil-rich country. So much so in fact that the U.S. embassy there has tactfully had to refuse offers from Kuwaitis eager to help bankroll | the presidential campaign. "We'd rather stay with the man we know," says one Kuwaiti. With such excitement, one wouldn't guess that the country is about to hold its own parliamentary elections next month. Gatherings meant to discuss local politics are now dominated by satellite...
...cross-purposes with those goals and with one another. Environmentalists argue -- correctly -- that recycled materials suffer in the marketplace against virgin materials because of government subsidies. Newsprint producers, for instance, are indirectly subsidized through public-area logging and logging access roads. The depletion allowance for petroleum subsidizes producers of oil-based plastics. "If these costs are taken into consideration," contends Allen Hershkowitz, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, "recycling looks economically a lot more competitive...
...security research at the Rand Corp., "and we don't have to wait for a threat before we protect our interests." Assertive military actions in the national interest will continue to include supporting American allies by deploying troops and fleets abroad, guarding access to foreign trade and resources (especially oil), trying to influence regional events and intimidating would-be aggressors...