Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israeli foray into Palestinian territory is unlikely before Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives in the region next week ? but with the peace process in tatters and warnings of more bombings, it may just be a matter of time...
...despite the news, many fear that the region's decade-long expansion is coming to an end. "It certainly looks like people were overly optimistic about the Southeast Asian economies," says Baumohl. "They pegged their currencies close to the U.S. dollar, but they didn't have the same strong conditions there that the U.S. is experiencing." In a surprise effort to stop the slide, Malaysia last week restricted stock trading. But that further scared investors, worsening the fall...
...continent normally consigned to the political and economic dustheap, Yoweri Museveni has amply demonstrated that he is something different. The President of Uganda, respected at home as Central Africa's intellectual compass and admired abroad as the harbinger of good news for a blighted region, has successfully resurrected his own benighted country and now fully intends to help neighboring leaders do the same for theirs. The secret? Things long deemed heretical there, like Africans taking charge of their own future, like the virtues of the free market, like a United States of Africa, like cows...
Uganda's leader is the brains and strategist of the entire region's new thinking. His odd coupling of outsize dreams and practical solutions has transformed his own blood-soaked nation into a model of economic advancement and stability, though hardly an American-style democracy. He believes the same African-style ideology can work just as well in the troubled lands of Congo, Rwanda and Sudan. But it is far from certain that what Museveni did in Uganda can be repeated elsewhere. As Museveni's confreres take power in the region--Kabila now rules Congo, guerrilla companion Paul Kagame...
...vengeance, gradually rendering all but a third of the 39-sq.-mi. British colony uninhabitable. Two-thirds of the population of 12,000 have fled, and thousands more have abandoned their homes, often with little but the clothes on their back, for overcrowded shelters in the comparatively safe northern region. Plymouth, the capital, has been reduced to rubble. The airport is closed, and the only access to the island is by ferry or helicopter...