Word: soils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hundreds of deed holders who fled the war's devastation are sure to return in coming months to reclaim their property. They will find, in most cases, that squatters who braved the fighting to cultivate the soil now consider themselves not claim jumpers but valiant pioneers. The Salvadoran government has a small reserve of land earmarked for redistribution, which may help a few. But not all the disputes can be solved that simply, and some are certain to lead to violence...
...determined to punish his enemies; he is also reluctant to trust his friends. Egypt and Syria offered to lend ground troops as a deterrent against the threat of future Iraqi aggression in exchange for billions of dollars in economic aid. But Kuwait wants no Arab soldiers stationed on its soil. Instead, the Kuwaitis are almost totally reliant on the ! U.S. for protection. They had hoped American troops would stay, but have contented themselves with a 10-year security agreement allowing the U.S. to maintain weapons and conduct military exercises in Kuwait...
EASTERN EUROPE. While Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia strive more or less successfully to replace communism with Western-style democracy, in other former Soviet satellites the alternative to red rule seems to be a mystic nationalism based on blood and soil. That holds particularly true for the main antagonists in the Yugoslav civil war. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, still nominally a socialist, has led his people to war in the name of a virulent ethnic nationalism that has nothing in common with the international brotherhood of workers to which he once professed allegiance. For his major opponent, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman...
...places so that it cannot be ignored. Democratic governments can put it down, but only if they demonstrate the strength to bring about renewed prosperity and the ability to offer a vision more compelling than the right's mean and narrow -- but unfortunately still attractive -- nationalism of blood and soil...
...Minsk meeting, the new states made a little progress. They agreed that the intercontinental ballistic missiles of the former Strategic Rocket Forces -- renamed the Strategic Deterrent Force -- will be centrally controlled by the Commonwealth. Over the next few years, three of the four states with nuclear weapons on their soil -- Ukraine, Belorussia and Kazakhstan -- are expected to destroy them or hand them over to the fourth, Russia...