Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, Saddam remains in power in Iraq and Americans, often reservists, stand guard over more than half of its war-torn landscape, policing no-fly zones. Water treatment plants are not rebuilt. The economy is nonexistent, at least in measurable terms. Convoys of the few supplies that actually are ordered by the Iraqi government from the West's watchguards are often diverted, squandered or sold to those who can barely survive let alone pay for what was meant of be distributed for free...
...East Timor may also have become the battleground that will settle the struggle for power in Indonesia itself. The crisis has shown the limits of civilian authority in Jakarta ? not only is President Habibie being ignored by his armed forces, but they actually forced him to reluctantly declare martial law in the territory after the referendum result was announced. Some analysts believe that East Timor may also have become caught in the crossfire of a struggle for power between different factions within the Indonesian military itself...
Perhaps, says TIME Pentagon reporter Mark Thompson. ?These days, the military is much more likely to exert influence over social policy than over military policy. Look at what happened with Clinton?s attempt to lift the ban on gays in the military. The military exerted its political power and made it very clear that they weren?t going to tolerate his viewpoint.? Conversely, adds Thompson, debates surrounding recent military conflicts clearly demonstrate the disparity of opinions on military involvement within both the Republican and conservative camps. So while the military will probably never present a united front on potential solutions...
...blast also follows last week?s attack on a games arcade in a shopping mall near the Kremlin, which sparked speculation that a gangland turf battle was involved, or, conversely, that the attack was part of a pattern of provocation by unnamed forces in the corridors of power designed to create a climate of instability as an excuse for a declaration of martial law. That, in turn, would facilitate the cancellation of December?s parliamentary election and next year?s presidential poll. "Law enforcement here talks not about a list of suspects but a list of ?versions,?" says TIME Moscow...
...WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT BILL] ...but is not into a power trip himself...