Word: ruffing
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...troops is unlikely to make much difference to a U.N. force, which, by its very nature, is only designed to keep the peace between two sides who're committed to an agreement - which clearly isn't the case in Sierra Leone, where the guerrillas of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) plainly never had any intention of complying with the requirement that they be disarmed. Instead, the rebels simply began attacking the hapless U.N. contingents, composed mostly of troops from other African countries and from India, and took some of them hostage...
...only successful effort, partial at least, to keep peace in Sierra Leone came when a Nigerian-led force, known as ECOMOG, intervened two years ago to stop the rebels from overrunning the country. But the RUF controlled diamond fields that could finance a long-term insurgency, and when ECOMOG withdrew recently, complaining that the mission was too costly, the RUF became emboldened. The peace deal was supposed to mean giving up their control over the diamond fields, but that wasn't something an exceedingly brutal army - which had adopted systematic dismembering of the civilian population as a tactic...
...means. And very ruthless business, meaning that the presence of United Nations peacekeepers is of little consequence to the fighters of the Revolutionary United Front, who continued to hold some 50 U.N. troops and officials hostage Thursday, after killing seven Kenyan soldiers of the international peacekeeping mission Wednesday. The RUF launched fierce attacks on U.N. forces when the peacekeepers attempted, in line with a peace agreement signed last year by the government and RUF leader Foday Sankoh, to disarm rebel forces. But despite the agreement, and the fact that Mr. Sankoh was made a government minister even though he leads...
...Stuttgart, Germany, another young man named Sep Ruf went with his first employer to see two houses that Le Corbusier had designed. The employer declared them a "blasphemy"; the employee thought they were great. "We argued," says Ruf who is now president of Munich's Academy of Art, "in the long, open, austere living room, and my boss got so angry that he fired me on the spot...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Bach's Ich Ruf zu Dir, Second Brandenburg Concerto, C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Come, Sweet Death; Wagner's love music from Tristan und Isolde. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...