Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with near impunity. Indeed the rebels seem to be better armed and equipped than they were a year ago. Their methods of operation are also increasingly sophisticated. About a third of the estimated 50,000 men that make up the various rebel groups launch their cross-border forays from tribal territories in Pakistan...
Though the Salisbury conference fell short of its $2 billion goal, Mugabe was pleased with the results. The money will be used to repair war damage, resettle refugees, develop agriculture and redistribute land. Despite continuing tribal warfare, Mugabe pledged to press ahead with Zimbabwe's reconstruction. "While they may not have been turned into plow shares," he said, "the swords of war have nonetheless been rendered blunt, and within our country we are determined to keep them that way." The only economic sour note for Mugabe was sounded in Pretoria, which announced last week that it would...
...Pakistan's seeming inability to heal its ethnic divisions, curb its birth rate and ultimately feed its people. The collapse of Pakistan from within-and Pakistan is just one example-could have serious repercussions throughout its region: renewed warfare with India over Kashmir, say, or the spread of tribal warfare into Iran...
...conceivable that World War III could start with the U.S. and Soviet Union taking sides, however reluctantly, in such a regional brawl. One possible site is the volatile Horn of Africa, where the forces of instability are as much demographic as geopolitical; famine and tribal vendettas might turn out to be as destructive as Kremlin scheming. The superpowers might be drawn in, since Soviet as well as Cuban forces are entrenched in Ethiopia, while the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force has access to bases in Ethiopia's hostile neighbor, Somalia...
Nine of the victims belonged to the Hmong tribe, and tribal leaders theorize that the deaths are a delayed reaction to what they believe was nerve gas dropped by North Vietnamese forces in retaliation for Hmong support of U.S. efforts in Viet Nam and Laos. Dr. David Paulson of the St. Paul health department does not buy that notion: "Nerve gas usually kills instantaneously and it does not discriminate between the sexes." Indeed there is no firm evidence that any of the victims had even been exposed to chemical agents in their homeland or that the North Vietnamese ever possessed...