Word: provocateur
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...provocateur this time is Croatia's President, Franjo Tudjman, who announced in January that the 12,000 United Nations peacekeepers patrolling the cease-fire line along the Serb-occupied Croatian region of Krajina must leave the country beginning March 31, when the U.N. mandate expires. The soldiers have managed to keep the peace in Croatia since being deployed there in the beginning of 1992, but Tudjman has concluded that they mainly serve to protect the Serbs' hold on Krajina. If the troops depart, there will be nothing to prevent the 105,000-man Croatian army and 40,000 Krajina Serbs...
Whether he's a valuable informer or an agent provocateur, Fitzpatrick has a way of popping up wherever a fuse is burning. As a teenager at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, where Shabazz was also a student, Fitzpatrick, the son of an Irish union organizer and a Jewish businesswoman, joined the radical Jewish Defense League. He was convicted in the 1977 bombing of a Soviet bookstore in Manhattan. Soon after, Fitzpatrick turned government informer. According to court documents he was paid about $10,000 by the FBI to inform on two members of a j.d.l. splinter group...
...economy prospers and the deficit shrinks, he will doubtless claim credit for having forced Washington to face reality. If Clintonomics flops, Perot will have created the * rationale for an I-told-you-so candidacy. Meanwhile, he is having a ball in his self-created role as agent provocateur...
...surprises begin when visitors are greeted by a smarmy host provocateur, who gloats from a jumble of video screens. "Hey, there! You look like average people," he says. "I mean, you've gotta be above average or you wouldn't be in a museum in the first place, right?" Pause. "Of course, we all have our limits. And we should. There's no reason to accept the lousy way certain people drive, f'instance -- not to mention how the you-know-whos do business. But I can tell you're not like them!" The host, who pops up regularly throughout...
...high-tech gimmickry, though, is that it will attract young people. "If you can communicate to a bright 17-year-old, you have communicated to everyone," says director Gerald Margolis. Without question, the museum's overall message comes through clearly. At the end of the tolerance exhibits, the host provocateur appears one last time. "That's it," he says, peering from behind a mask out of a big bank of monitors. "I am giving up all responsibility." The screens then dissolve into the words WHO IS RESPONSIBLE...