Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Again, things didn't start off so well. This time, though, things would turn out just fine...
Again, things didn't start off so well. This time, though, things would turn out just fine...
...betrayal. I betrayed the President in that way. I didn't have the foresight to see what the possible ramifications of this could be. But I also always thought to myself, [the] worst-case scenario was [if] one of these people in whom I confided--aside from Linda Tripp--turned on me. Where would they turn on me? They'd go to the press. What would I do? I'd make a statement and say this is not true. And that's not illegal...
Kabila meant to turn that promise into a future. Between his arrival in office in May 1997 and the outbreak of civil war last August, he changed the name of the country back to Congo (from Zaire). He brought inflation down from 900% to 5%. He attempted to build a professional army. But what Kabila didn't do was broaden his political base beyond his own tribe. And he began using arrests of politicians and journalists as a management tool...
...insists his intentions are peaceable. As he appeared on television last week describing his army's hunt for the Bwindi killers, he was polished, global and sophisticated. Museveni takes pride in his soldiers and insists their presence in Congo is a stabilizing force. They train the Congolese rebels. They turn over any mines captured to the rebels so that they can buy the hearts and minds of their fellow Congolese...