Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joined with Kagame to mastermind the revolt. With Washington's tacit consent, he supplies weapons and training to the Sudanese guerrilla bands of Garang, who went to university with Museveni and who even sent his own troops to fight. But Museveni is not just helping his buddies: he wants quiet, friendly borders in order to shut down three guerrilla groups that continue to plague parts of northern and western Uganda...
...Embassy and demanded asylum. Just as inevitably, says Waller, the North Koreans will be back. "They've stalled these talks before." Eventually, he says, Pyongyang will decide that the four-party talks are in its interest ? and though it may sting the national pride, only foreign aid can quiet the rumbling of North Korea's stomach...
...YORK: To spank or not to spank? That is the question parents with unruly children have been asking themselves for years. According to recent polls, two- thirds of the nation's pediatricians say yes ? the occasional whupping might transform disruptive brats into quiet little angels. But while the rod may encourage obedience, researchers at Fordham University now claim spanking may lower a child...
...Third Kind and this summer's Contact reawakened the human craving to reach out and touch those things we do not know. While the jolly Jet Propulsion Lab fellows liked to drown out the Martian silence with Twist and Shout, these movies are about the wisdom of being quiet enough to hear the otherworldly message--the simple sequence of chords that announces the aliens' arrival in Close Encounters, the pounding radio signal from Vega that Jodie Foster's character picks up in Contact...
...Drug Enforcement Administration head TOM CONSTANTINE made a quiet trip to Bogota last week to say gracias to Colombian National Police chief GENERAL ROSSO JOSE SERRANO for his work rounding up the Cali dons. Since the CNP-DEA crackdown, says Constantine, the coke business has atomized, and the many small- and medium-size organizations now operating have neither the political sophistication nor the immense concentration of wealth of the old Cali guard. "That type of clout and power to intimidate doesn't exist anymore," says Constantine, who calls CNP boss Serrano "an honest guy who is determined to make...