Word: rump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the war, Milosevic remains unshaken by the world's gathering wrath. "It is the totally wrong approach to pressure Yugoslavia to solve problems outside of Yugoslavia, in a situation in which we don't want to be involved," he says. His line is that since the newly constituted rump Yugoslavia has ordered its army out of Bosnia and turned the fight over to ethnic Serbs there, it is no longer Serbia's problem. But discouraged diplomats warn that nothing is likely to deter Milosevic from his goal of Greater Serbia. Says a U.S. analyst: "Where we're interested...
...Brussels the European Community imposed limited economic sanctions on the rump Yugoslav state at midweek. The Serbian Orthodox Church said it was "openly distancing itself" from the government in Belgrade. Then came the revolting images of death in Sarajevo's marketplace and the U.S., Britain and France pressed the U.N. Security Council to impose full, mandatory sanctions...
...member of Afghanistan's Tajik minority, had initially held his men out of the capital, partly to avoid chaos in the city of 1.5 million and , partly to try to seal it off from Hekmatyar, his principal rival. Hekmatyar, an ethnic Pashtun and Islamic fundamentalist, had demanded that the rump government in Kabul surrender to him so that a strictly religious Muslim regime could be installed. Now both mujahedin forces are in the center of the city, including the grounds of the presidential palace, where even a small clash could spark another round of civil...
...bear, following paw prints in the snow. The bear suddenly appears as a hint of movement, white against white, padding its way across the ice. The helicopter descends, hovering over the frightened creature, and a shotgun slides out the window, firing a tranquilizer dart into the massive fur-covered rump. Minutes pass. The bear shows no effects. The helicopter drops for a second shot. This time the bear stands its ground, and the pilot, fearing the animal is about to lunge for the aircraft, abruptly noses the chopper skyward. He remembers how a 9-ft. bear once swiped...
...American experts estimate the KGB's current size at 600,000 members, 265,000 of them border guards, 230,000 in military units, and 40,000 assigned to domestic surveillance. Foreign intelligence, the elite division, accounts for perhaps 20,000 operatives. The KGB of the future could be a rump organization, its feared sword blunted forever...