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...Neither country has clearly threatened the other's sovereignty. Peru seeks compliance with the 1942 Rio agreement, in which it is granted part of the demarcated jungle region, and has made no move to overthrow the Ecuadoran government. Even with a well-equipped air force, Peru hasn't extended the fighting beyond the strip of land in question...
Admittedly, that's a scary step. Women as a group are not psychologically equivalent to blacks or gays. We may want to overthrow the patriarchal equation between "daddy" and "boss," but inwardly we want daddy to love us too, or what amounts to the same thing for the general public to think we're "nice." Women, and perhaps especially white middle-class women, are trained to believe the only way to win love and approval is to be a good little girl until well into cronehood...
WHAT HOUSE SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH THINKS ABOUT the brave new world of technological change can largely be traced back to the works of two best- selling authors: Alvin Toffler, 66, and George Gilder, 55. When Gingrich tosses out such concepts as "the Third Wave" or the "overthrow of matter," when he talks about the "demassification" of U.S. society and the "bottom- up" freedoms created by the personal computer, he is quoting chapter and verse from the ideas of Toffler and Gilder...
...armored vehicles stored there have for years been the military's coupmaking tools, equipment that can surround administrative buildings and oust governments. Three years ago, Port-au-Prince police chief Michel Francois, then an unknown police major, seized control of the heavy weapons and rolled into the capital to overthrow Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the country's first democratically elected President. The hardware is now under guard inside the U.S. base at the airport -- and Aristide will be coming back...
Peacekeepers from eight West African nations used tanks and gunboats to defeat a faction of the former Liberian army that tried to overthrow an interim government; it was the latest outbreak of fighting in Liberia's five-year-old civil war. The attempted putsch came three days after the country's three main warring factions signed a United Nations-approved peace pact...