Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case you didn't recognize it, that's the sound of the Western-state rebellion as it rumbles into the Beltway. With it comes the region's ancient resentment of Washington's rule, the same discontent that has gone national in recent years. It also brings to Capitol Hill the West's most abiding issue, the land: who owns it, how to use it and who decides. Translated into Washington terms, that means ever more heated politics of the environment, as Western lawmakers tear through two decades of regulations. They are doing it with such success that many moderate Republicans...
...really is like being in a colony," says Trish Rippie, a Tonopah real estate agent. What makes this presence particularly stifling, she says, is that it runs directly counter to the independent character of the region and of the people who moved here for the low taxes, the lack of rules--Nye has no zoning laws--and the overall sense of freedom. "I think just about everybody here would like to see a revolution and have the Federal Government washed away," she says. "But nobody really wants a shooting war. We'd be annihilated...
...Bosnia must end, last week's events provided one. A truce had been declared and peace talks were approaching--yet the combatants clashed repeatedly in the northwestern part of the country as each side fought to win territory before negotiations begin. In the same region, the Serbs conducted some of their most barbaric exercises in "ethnic cleansing." Given this conflict's warped, through-the-looking-glass logic, it was perhaps only to be expected that auguries of peace would provoke the worst excesses...
...from their families and sending them to their possible death. As in the past, Zeljko Raznatovic, a commander who is known as Arkan, undertook much of the brutality. According to Kris Janowski, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Arkan and his men were brought to the region because they were not part of the communities. "The local Serbs often develop quite a friendly relationship with their neighbors," Janowski said. "Bringing in people like Arkan and his thugs essentially ensures a quick ethnic cleansing without any emotions involved...
Russian and Chechen negotiators halted their talks on peace in the secessionist Russian region where tens of thousands of Russian troops remain and fighting continues. Chechen rebel leaders also formally suspended their participation in the widely violated cease-fire, saying they would refuse to negotiate until United Nations troops were brought in, a move Russia rejects as interference in its internal affairs. The breakdown in talks came after a bomb attack gravely injured the commander of Russian forces in Chechnya and killed three others...