Word: tumult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America. The 'liberal expectancy' suggested a fading of differences into a common civic culture. The Marxist expectation was that class would obliterate background distinctions of every kind. Glazer and I argued that ethnic attachments would grow more, not less, pronounced. It may help to know that the present tumult was anticipated. It may also help to know -- and teach -- how much the cast of characters changes. A century ago in New York, the Irish would have felt themselves the most aggrieved group. Such tensions have long since faded...
...millions of Ethiopians for whom starvation is a constant foe, the stakes in the struggle for control of the country are especially high. So far, the tumult has brought them nothing but misery. Food deliveries to Ethiopia's 7 million drought victims have been disrupted, and in some cases stopped, by the fighting. Supply trucks were attacked and looted, and international relief workers fled. The fall of coastal Assab to Eritrean fighters two weeks ago temporarily closed the city's port on the Red Sea, one of the most important conduits...
...fair, it could have been worse, as it has been elsewhere. The recent fall of governments in Liberia and Somalia invited spasms of bloodletting that make the tumult in Ethiopia look like a tiff between friends. Still, the unrest in Addis Ababa laid bare the factional divisions that continue to plague Ethiopia, a country that has 70 ethnic groups and at least as many different languages. Holding together the country, or what remains of it, will be as daunting a task for the new regime as it was for the fallen...
...ETHICS Tumult over a test that isn't "color-blind...
...That, however, was as far as Washington and its allies were prepared to go in siding with the insurgency. Their fear is that if the central government loses its grip on Iraq, the resulting power vacuum will produce a storm of tumult, with the Shi'ites grabbing the south, the Kurds taking the north and neighboring Iran, Turkey and Syria slicing off bits and pieces of their own. Bush last week warned Tehran that invading Iraq would be "the worst thing it could...