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...people behind the latest unrest in Macedonia are mainly members of the Kosovo People's Movement (L.P.K.), the group that gave rise to the Kosovo Liberation Army in 1997. "This isn't the first time we're being called terrorists," says Emrush Xhemajli, president of the L.P.K. in Kosovo. "This isn't the first time we're being chastised. It's just a matter of time before NATO comes to its senses and embraces (the Albanian fighters in Macedonia), just as it did the old K.L.A." Full Story...
...speak for an entire party or people? The nld is split on the issue. The Burmese, who extend Southeast Asia's warmest welcome to tourists, are clearly happy to see them, not soldiers, on the streets. Some tourism supporters accuse boycott advocates of cynically trying to stir up unrest by depressing incomes...
...story starts in 1988 when, after 40 years of quiescence, Galeras began a fresh round of unrest that brought Williams and other scientists running to southern Colombia. Because Galeras hovered just a few miles above the city of Pasto (pop. 300,000), the U.N. put the volcano on its list of natural hazards in need of urgent attention. After shaking and coughing small eruptions for months, Galeras squeezed a plug of lava onto the surface that it blew apart in a dramatic eruption on July 16, 1992. Given the mounting activity, Williams had no problem enticing volcano experts from...
...indicated it would follow its own laws in regard to the labor rights clause of the International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. China recognizes only one state-sanctioned labor organization, bars independent unions and outlaws strikes. Scores of activists have been detained in recent years and worker unrest has grown...
...province. Local Dayak government officials were blamed for inciting the violence, which soon became a fearsome frenzy, as machete-wielding gangs mutilated helpless immigrants and set fire to their homes. The instability added to the woes of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid. The World Bank last week warned that ethnic unrest threatens to dismember the world's fourth-largest country and precipitate its financial collapse...