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...sorrow of divided nations is in the air. Rwanda and South Africa, Bosnia and Palestine have taken up permanent residence in newspaper headlines and on the television newscasts. Violence and strife between ethnic and racial groups seem staples of the post-Cold War world. With the world's attention fixed on the Balkans, hardly anyone remembers that the island of Cyprus, a country near Bosnia, has been living with the harsh realities of division and conflict for over 20 years. With a view to remedying this situation, Harvard is hosting a conference this weekend entitled "Cyprus and Its People...
Though part of the problem is traceable to the fact that additional money approved by Congress to help cover the cost of missions in Haiti, Rwanda and Kuwait did not flow to Pentagon budgets until some units were already limping, White House officials are wondering if they were ambushed. "We gave all of the services written guidance that readiness was to be their No. 1 concern and that they were to cut other programs to ensure it be kept up," an Administration official fumes. "Do you think it's a coincidence that only days after the Republicans take over...
...fight over the Pentagon's fiscal 1996 budget began early, when Defense Secretary William Perry acknowledged that three of the Army's 12 divisions were below peak readiness levels, principally due to the cost of missions to Haiti, Rwanda and elsewhere. Republicans claimed the revelation proved the wisdom of their campaign pledge to pump more money into the military...
Relief workers' mounting frustration with the oustedRwandan militia's virtual takeover of refugee campspeaked today when a leading aid group, Doctors Without Borders, pulled out of five refugee camps in eastern Zaire. The group says it will leave the region entirely unless soldiers and armed youths loyal to Rwanda's old Hutu government -- the same gangs that massacred up to 500,000 rival Tutsis this year -- stop stockpiling relief supplies and intimidating others Hutus from returning home. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Andrew Purvis says the move may finally prompt the United Nations to send in a promised police force...
...RWANDA: Feeding the Killers...