Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CATHERINE THE GREAT: TREASURES OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA: Memphis Cook Convention Center, Memphis. Almost 300 items from the era of the 18th century Czarina, including court costumes, an embroidered war tent, bejeweled snuff boxes, saintly icons and a newly restored gilded coronation carriage. Through Sept...
...Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates -- are the first Arab states after Egypt to agree to sit down and talk formally with Israel. That alone, says Baker, "will break at least one major taboo." A Saudi official in Washington agrees: "The camel's nose is in the tent...
Over time, though, returning home or at least relocating to one of the tent cities may begin to look more appealing to the Kurds than continuing to squat in their miserable mountain asylums along the border. Turkish forces patrolling their side of the frontier may speed up that reassessment. "When the weather gets better," says a U.N. worker, "the Turkish military will get the journalists out, then give the refugees a survival kit and push them out, at gunpoint if necessary." Other relief specialists add that within a month, the streams in the mountains will dry up, forcing the Kurds...
...rapprochement in Baghdad may enable the allies who are assisting the Kurds to extricate themselves more quickly from Iraq. Two days after the tentative accord was announced, the U.N. agreed to take over the administration of the tent cities, a role the allies had been pressing on the organization. For now, allied forces will remain to provide protection for the camps; the deployment of U.N. peacekeeping troops would require a Security Council resolution, which the Soviet Union and China would probably block for fear of setting a precedent for U.N. intervention in their own rebellious outlands. But if Saddam abides...
President George Bush calls it "a responsibility imposed by our successes" in the cold war. Columnist Pete Hamill calls it the new world odor. Fleeing Kurds, burying their dead in mountain tent cities, call it misery...