Word: regionally
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Saudi Arabia and the other gulf states may still be a long way from becoming like Iran under the Shah, but the U.S. plans to stay in the gulf a long time. If more incidents like that at Dhahran are not to occur and if the region is to remain stable, the U.S. must act with care as it rapidly expands its permanent presence. Is the U.S. properly sophisticated about these matters? Comments after the bombing by General Kurt Anderson, commander of the Joint Task Force Southwest Asia, are not encouraging. Asked why Americans were attacked, Anderson said...
...Mokoto massacre signals an ominous escalation in a civil war that is overwhelming the beautiful province of North Kivu in eastern Zaire. Eclipsed until recently by the scale of the killing in neighboring Rwanda and Burundi, the region is boiling over in a conflict that has left up to 50,000 dead and more than 350,000 homeless, 100,000 in the past two months. Thousands of civilians, mostly Tutsi, continue to stream across the border into Rwanda and Uganda...
Hutu and Tutsi have lived in eastern Zaire for generations, many of them immigrating to the region to till the sparsely populated hillsides in the 1930s, and still more being driven across the border by violence at the time of Rwandan independence in 1959. Since then Hutu of Rwandan ancestry have outnumbered both Tutsi immigrants and indigenous tribes. This imbalance, along with a government decree stripping Rwandan immigrants and their descendants of Zairian citizenship, spawned tension that flared into fighting in 1993. That conflict pitted Hutu against indigenous Hunde tribesmen and was marked by gruesome rituals, with Hunde sometimes eating...
...chaos in eastern Zaire illustrates the distrust and hatred infecting a region traumatized by Rwanda's and Burundi's civil wars. Neither the Tutsi minority, victims of genocide in 1994, nor the Hutu majority, disfranchised in both their former homelands, has been willing to negotiate. Both feel they have an ancestral right to govern and are intent on pursuing that goal by any means. Ironically, the Hutu quest for a homeland in Zaire conforms to the most radical solution yet proposed to solve the crisis: redrawing the borders so that Hutu and Tutsi can live apart in their own countries...
...Prairie Region of Canada where I grew up and live, child labor was looked upon as both a necessity and an asset not all that long ago. In the first half of the 20th century, many children of Canadian farm families--including my mother--were taken out of school so they could help in the developing agricultural economy. They were cheap farm laborers. To suggest that all child labor is bad is to embrace a type of political correctness that has not been thought through. Would the North American advocates who oppose all child labor prefer that the children...