Word: states
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...governments don?t doubt the viciousness of Ocalan?s insurgency, they tend to put it in the context of Turkey?s denial of the cultural and language rights of its Kurdish population: Turkey treats any assertion of a distinct Kurdish identity as a threat to the integrity of the state. This has allowed Ocalan, during his trial, to cloak himself in the mantle of an interlocutor for a disenfranchised population ?- obviously mindful of the fact that in the Kosovo conflict NATO ostensibly went to war to secure autonomy for an oppressed group within Yugoslavia. In addition, the trial doesn...
MARRIED. ERIK MENENDEZ, 28, older of two Beverly Hills siblings responsible for the 1989 murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez; to an as yet unidentified woman; in the Sacramento, Calif., state prison where he is serving a life sentence...
LOOK, MOM--INMATES! The Iowa Department of Transportation just printed 1.7 million maps with the designation "Fort Dodge Recreational Facility." Oops. Make that Correctional Facility, the new state prison...
...generals furious with NATO's stonewalling. The decision, say Russian sources, was taken no earlier than June 10, two days before the troops moved in. At that point, U.S.-Russia talks on peacekeeping in Kosovo were going badly. Military representatives suspected that their main U.S. interlocutor, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, was playing for time in Moscow, trying to keep negotiations bogged down until NATO had deployed. Yeltsin, meanwhile, was smarting at what he felt was Bill Clinton's condescension toward him. Sometime that day, Yeltsin was briefed on the talks, and he asked, as he often does...
While only a few people in Moscow were privy to the plan, it seems to have been well known and warmly welcomed in Belgrade. The Yugoslavs went out of their way to facilitate the convoy's movement, Russian military sources say. Serbian state officials secured the convoy's route through Serbia and ensured that a road into Kosovo was kept free of refugees and retreating troops. To allow the convoy to travel at top speed as much as possible, a Yugoslav military officer rode in every third vehicle, ready to navigate if the convoy was broken up in traffic...