Word: war-torn
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...officials began brandishing threats of Serbia's total isolation, complete with economic sanctions. Last week Milosevic finally followed Croatian President Franjo Tudjman's lead and signed on to an E.C. plan to monitor a cease-fire and moderate an all-party peace conference for war-torn Yugoslavia. Cornered into a toast, Milosevic said, "You always have to protect victims, and Serbs are victims in this case." Dutch Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek, who brokered the agreement on behalf of the Community, added an amendment to Milosevic's grudging salute: "All those who are being killed are victims; they...
Approximately 100 people marched from MIT to the Cambridge Common yesterday to celebrate the victory of Ethiopian rebels over the authoritarian regime of Lt. Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam and the establishment of a provisional government in the war-torn, East African region of Eritrea...
...Ginsberg, who recalls being thrown out of a third floor classroom and being called a "Jewboy," and who has lived with constant violence since he moved to the kibbutz adjacent to the war-torn Lebanese border, "the rest of the world can go fuck itself...
...Washington pondered its eventual response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the U.S. was suddenly forced to make a move in another long-festering global trouble spot. Last Saturday night George Bush ordered U.S. Marines into the civil war-torn African nation of Liberia. Their job: to evacuate any of the 370 Americans residing there who wanted to get out. On Sunday a force of 225 Leathernecks from four U.S. warships off the Liberian coast landed by helicopter in the capital of Monrovia and quickly began rounding up U.S. citizens, many of whom had gathered at the American embassy...
With frequent allusions to the 1947 Harvard Commencement Speech given by Secretary of State George C. Marshall, in which Marshall announced his plan to funnel massive financial aid to rebuild war-torn Europe, Kohl said the United States should remain a "European power" in the coming decades...