Word: ruler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kuwait and then-President George H. W. Bush. In ordering this crime, Hussein risked an overwhelming military response from the U.S. for little reason other than to gratify his thirst for vengeance. This assassination attempt constitutes a casus belli for the U.S. as long as Hussein remains the ruler of Iraq, and demonstrates that he is not a rational actor who can be trusted as a predictable, let alone responsible, steward of weapons of mass destruction...
...topple the government found a cache of 26 bombs in the farming area of Keimoes in Northern Cape province. A group calling itself Warriors of the Boer Nation claimed responsibility for last month's Soweto bombings, which killed one woman. PAKISTAN Narrow Victory After some arm-twisting by military ruler Pervez Musharraf, the National Assembly chose Zafarullah Jamali as Prime Minister, the first since a 1999 military coup. Losing candidate Shah Mahmood Quereshi claimed Musharraf used threats and bribes to persuade some assemblymen to switch sides. A last-minute waiver of rules forbidding party defections allowed Jamali to scrape through...
...West is less a about his abuse of political power, and more about whom he is attacking. The European Union and the U.S. claim to be appalled by his human rights record, but there are a dozen other comparable leaders in Africa. As Barron points out, the white colonial ruler of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, was not condemned for his abuses; he was invited by Jimmy Carter to see a Broadway play, even though Smith ran a murderous regime...
...conundrum of Kim, who succeeded his father Kim Il Sung eight years ago as North Korea's absolute ruler, has flummoxed Washington for years. The xenophobic leader can veer from aggressive hostility to quiet bids to mend relations with the outside world, particularly if other nations help leapfrog his poverty-stricken people into the modern era. Like his father, when Kim has been most desperate for foreign aid, he has used the rattle of nukes to frighten the U.S. and its allies into buying...
...IVORY COAST Moral: Don't Leave Home An attempted coup d'état convulsed one of sub-Saharan Africa's richest but most politically fragile countries while President Laurent Gbagbo was in Italy. Loyalist soldiers killed the man accused of leading the uprising, General Robert Guei, the former military ruler who was himself ousted in a 1999 coup. Heavy fighting began in the commercial capital Abidjan before dawn on Thursday and spread to two other main towns, which the rebels still held at week's end. At least 80 people were killed, including Interior Minister Emil Boga, and more than...