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From his earliest days, Kagame has been caught up in the country's turmoil. Born in southern Rwanda, he was taken to Uganda at the age of two when his parents fled anti-Tutsi pogroms. He grew up in a refugee camp. After high school, he became a guerrilla fighter in the Ugandan rebel army, where he rose to chief of military intelligence. When the R.P.F. invaded Rwanda in 1990, Kagame was taking an officers' course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The assault foundered when Major General Fred Rwigyema was killed. Kagame flew back to take charge. "Hundreds had died...
...done deal that the Democratic Party will hold its 1996 presidential convention in Chicago, its first there since Yippie riots over Vietnam and delegates' turmoil marred the '68 nomination of Hubert Humphrey. An aide to Mayor Richard Daley, whose father held office the last time around, told TIME Chicago correspondent Julie Grace the decision is a matter of wrapping up a few easy details. Chicago bid $32 million to be the host, beating out rivals New York City, New Orleans and San Antonio, Texas, for a possible $100 million economic return. Grace says David Wilhelm, a former operative of Daley...
...Liberal Party, went on to win the election by a bare 2.2% margin over the Conservative Party's Andres Pastrana. The day after the vote, three audiotapes containing the Giraldo-Rodriguez conversations surfaced in Bogota, casting doubt on the legitimacy of Samper's victory and throwing Colombia into political turmoil. "If it is proved that the President-elect's campaign received drug-trafficking money," said Pastrana, "he should resign because his mandate would be invalid...
...hand forced by a looming no-confidence vote he was nearly certain to lose, Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata announced his resignation just two months after he took office. Reflecting recent political turmoil, Hata's successor will be Japan's seventh PM since...
...argument for invasion is simple: all other alternatives have not worked. Haiti's internal turmoil is a legitimate U.S. interest because it sends thousands of unwanted refugees to American shores. Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a democratically elected President owed support in the hemisphere. Yet why should America be willing to put its soldiers' lives on the line to save Haiti? If the U.S. can negotiate with North Korea, why can it not do the same with the unsavory Haitian regime? If the refugees can be filtered through Jamaica, why should the U.S. worry about reforming the society from which they...