Word: tumult
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...Tokyo conference was supposed to be a chance to shine in foreign affairs and reassert American leadership over the Group of Seven. By last week, however, the outlook had changed to a point where White House aides were scrambling to scale back expectations, pointing to Japan's political tumult as a hindrance to agreements. The sorry truth is that Miyazawa is scarcely alone in his fall from grace. Along with his fellow summiteers, Clinton is plagued by waning faith in his abilities. His first four months in office have made America's allies less respectful of the traditional U.S. leadership...
...simple truth is that many members of the Class of '93 have kept out of these debates, and the stillness of the water under the tumult suggests that identity politics is only a passing phase...
...tumult has increased fears for the safety of U.N. personnel; 50 volunteer election supervisors outside Phnom Penh have left their posts, adding to doubts that the U.N. force will be able to supervise the election throughout the countryside. Even if balloting takes place, the results of an election conducted under such conditions will be highly suspect...
AFTER MONTHS OF SURVIVING BULLETS AND HUNger, Bosnia's Muslims faced a new and particularly cruel deathtrap -- the lure of escape. At least 12 were killed, nearly all of them women and children, in the tumult of evacuating some 4,300 civilians from the besieged town of Srebrenica by two United Nations truck convoys. Desperate to escape a Serbian blockade, loads of as many as 180 people swarmed aboard the transport vehicles designed to carry sacks of food, unwittingly crushing to death the small and weak in the process. Others died of suffocation during the eight-hour journey to Tuzla...
...today's global tumult, a country that enjoys full employment and stability -- along with no crime, no pornography, no drugs, and no dirt to speak of -- may strike many as at least a reasonable facsimile of paradise. Singapore, long an object of curiosity for its unique blend of open economics, authoritarian politics and social engineering, is attracting attention as a model modern society. Francis Fukuyama, the author of The End of History?, says the "soft authoritarianism" of countries like Singapore "is the one potential competitor to Western liberal democracy, and its strength and legitimacy is growing daily." Tiny anticommunist Singapore...