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More worrisome is the possibility of further Serbian aggression provoking wider conflict. Serbs loathe, and oppress, the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo province, which is also home to 209,000 Serbs; some analysts predict that the Albanians there will rebel or that Belgrade will try to drive them out as soon as the Bosnian question is settled. Either eventuality could spur Albania to intervene. Hungary has massed troops at its southern border to protect 385,000 ethnic Hungarians in the Serbian province of Vojvodina. A Serbian effort to annex parts of Macedonia could prompt a response by Russia, Bulgaria or even...
Hoping to flush insurgents from the bush, draw them to the negotiating table and end a two-decade-old rebellion, newly elected Philippine President Fidel Ramos has proposed legalizing the Communist Party to allow its members to participate openly in the political process. So far, rebel leaders have not rushed forth with white flags. They question Ramos' sincerity, recalling his cold-warrior reputation and tough line on negotiations when he was armed forces chief. They want more political reforms and more progress against poverty...
...fear and hunger that warfare began. More than half the refugees are Somali, fleeing westward from continuous battles among their country's clans and subclans. From the north trek thousands of starving Ethiopians, and from the northwest Sudanese are fleeing from Khartoum's national army and the southern rebel forces it is pushing before...
...would mistake Lisa Yadao for James Dean, but this Harvard field hockey goalie is certainly a rebel, albeit an unassuming...
Eventually, a sense of duty overcame his loveof a joke, and he became more serious aboutanswering such questions. "Anyone who asked, Iwould sit them down and talk until they said,'Please Anton, let me go," Quist says. "Peoplethink that everyone in Africa is either fightingas rebel soldier or starving. 'That's all that yousee in the media. I realized that the myths aboutAfrica were a result of a lack of information...