Word: regionally
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Young, who represents European and U.S. aircraftmakers in Asia, has refused to be interviewed. Friends say he is a self-made man who worked his way to the top of Asia's competitive aerospace market by selling used aircraft parts across the region in the 1960s and '70s, sleeping in bus stations and bathing in airport rest rooms to save money. He rose to a position of power in the G.O.P. organization Republicans Abroad, and served as regional coordinator for George Bush in 1988 before giving up his U.S. citizenship...
...Zairean Tutsi living in the southeast rebelled in the face of a tribal pogrom supported by Mobutu's army. Led by Kabila, who has been involved in uprisings in Zaire for 30 years, well-armed fighters not only halted the pogrom but swiftly overwhelmed the government forces in the region. Kabila's Tutsi-led forces kept right on winning, and are now poised to take over the whole country...
Their arrival in Kinshasa could bring a final round of bloodshed, but the emergence of Kabila and a new generation of leaders in neighboring countries offers a fresh start for the long-suffering region. As a revolutionary, Kabila has yet to prove his devotion to democracy or ethnic even-handedness, but world leaders are encouraged by his role as a protege of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a onetime leftist guerrilla who has embraced capitalism, led his country to a newfound prosperity and turned friendly toward...
...country that was once a synonym for horror, but he is also exerting profound influence across the breadth of sub-Saharan Africa. Old friends, proteges and disciples have either gained power or, as in Kabila's case, are in the process of winning it, from the Great Lakes region north to Sudan and west to the mouth of the Congo...
...Purcell knew that if he looked at the center of the Milky Way, he would see what is known as antimatter: bizarre subatomic particles that resemble ordinary protons and electrons but carry an opposite charge. But when NASA controllers trained the orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory on this core region and beamed the data back, Purcell saw something on his computer screen at Northwestern University that nobody could have predicted: a veritable colossus of antimatter, a vast fountain spewing out from the center of our galaxy and reaching trillions of miles into space...