Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...write it aged 85, how different would it be?" That's Lessing -- always doubting, exacting, comparing. Under My Skin (HarperCollins; 419 pages; $25) is not so much a recollection of her early life in Southern Rhodesia as a dissection of it. Remote styles of life -- in a colonial outpost at the end of the British regime in Africa, with its hopeless yearnings and longings, and in communist circles of the 1930s, with their blithe and heartless dreams of a brave new world -- come under a moral microscope. How legitimate were people's . experiences? How well have youthful agendas held...
...Georgian. The Georgians will not forgive you." He also hears of nearly 40 border conflicts, none more bitter than the clash between Muslim Azerbaijan and the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Geographically separated from Armenia, the Christian majority of Nagorno- Karabakh sees itself as a forgotten outpost of Western civilization in a rising sea of born-again Muslims. Armenians and Azerbaijanis are so polarized by this issue, says Kapuscinski, that anyone who is bold enough to suggest a mediated solution to his own leaders risks ostracism and even death...
...reason for this public relations offensive is that Jack Welch, perhaps the most admired corporate manager in America, is suddenly fighting for his honor as GE faces embarrassments from its outpost on Wall Street to its half- century-old engine division in Evendale, Ohio. Chief among the problems is the mess at Kidder Peabody, GE's money-losing brokerage unit, where head government-bond trader Joseph Jett concocted $350 million of phony profits over a 29-month period before he was fired in April. Jett now claims to have been acting with the knowledge of his superiors. The scandal...
...team of 18 U.S. soldiers flew to a remote outpost in the Dominican Republic, under orders to monitor its border with Haiti for potential violations of a U.N. trade embargo against that country. The G.I.s are to join teams of 14 Canadians and 15 Argentines, the leading edge of a multinational force that senior U.S. officials are brandishing at Haiti's intransigent military junta. The move is the first serious attempt to enforce the embargo, which military sources say is violated daily. The most common contraband: gasoline -- 40,000 to 50,000 gallons of which flow across the 186-mile...
Russia, facing a mounting outcry to keep its weapons-grade plutonium under tighter control, said it had arrested smugglers on its own soil. Police said they had detained three men Aug.12 in Kaliningrad, a western outpost on the Polish border, after they tried to sell a 132-pound container of the radioactive material for $1 million. The would-be buyers included Poles, Germans and Russians. The disclosure of the six-day-old arrests gave Moscow brief cover as officials from Germany, the U.S. and other Western countries demanded cooperation on tracking smugglers and securing nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, persistent Russian...