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...bases. According to Moua, only a third of the rounds are actually live, negating Hmong chances of launching a viable offensive. As for the Lao government, which declined to talk to TIME, it denies allegations that it is decimating Hmong rebels and blames them for much of the unrest in the country. It insists that Hmong are doubling as bandits. In February an ambush on a bus traveling the busy Highway 13 in the north left 12 people dead, including two Swiss cyclists. A calling card pinned to one of the corpses indicated the deaths were the work of Hmong...
...That's a false impression, says Albert Mohler. The missionaries, he says, whose aim is partly humanitarian, see themselves as part of a tradition dating back 2000 years, to the mission that brought Jesus to Jerusalem. It was a journey that provoked unrest, frightened authority and led Christ to the cross, but ultimately, Christians believe, delivered a life-saving message to the world...
Massive bouts of civil unrest stimulated by Islamic fundamentalism forced the Algerian government to postpone its 1991 elections, originally scheduled for June of that year, until December. When Algerians finally took to the polls, they overwhelmingly elected members of the Islamic Salvation Front. Following these unexpected results, the military cancelled the elections, and a bloody civil war ensued causing an estimated 100,000 deaths from...
EGYPT The government frets that a U.S. strike on an Arab country could incite unrest among a public already angry about U.S. support for Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians. But as in other Arab countries, the leaders loathe Saddam. Because the U.S. supplies Egypt with $2 billion in aid a year, it can probably count on overflight rights and the use of the Suez Canal for warships and supply boats...
...international perspective. He made Italy famous in the world." By 1968 Fiat overtook Volkswagen as the largest carmaker outside the U.S., with 157,000 employees turning out 1.75 million cars a year. Fiat continued to expand through much of the 1970s and 1980s, a period marked by labor unrest and terrorism. That's one reason Agnelli transferred manufacturing abroad to places like the Soviet Union, Brazil and Turkey, where labor was cheaper and the industrial scene less chaotic than at home. One of those investments, the huge Togliatti plant opened behind the iron curtain in 1970, produced more critics than...