Word: wars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...war" on corruption is being fought in Africa, the president of the continent's most populous nation said this weekend at Harvard...
...then declared that an "all-out war" was being fought on corruption...
Both men have always defied pigeonholes. In the Senate, Gore was an environmentalist who knew everything about the MX missile; Bradley favored funding the Nicaraguan contras, but was against the Gulf War. These days, whether they are talking health care, education, crime or poverty, the instruments they use, for the most part, all come out of the New Democrat toolbox. Bradley has gone further left on gays, proposing that they should have all the legal and economic rights of marriage short of the title itself, and he's gone further on gun control, where he favors registering all handguns...
...President Suharto was deposed, the country has lurched repeatedly from giddy euphoria to violent despair and back. But despite the ethnic violence, lynchings and looting in major cities and the carnage in seceding East Timor, this sprawling archipelago of 210 million people has not disintegrated into ungovernability or civil war. Some had predicted the world's next Yugoslavia, but after last week, Indonesia had instead completed its graduation from a military-backed dictatorship to the world's third largest democracy (after India and the U.S.). "Indonesia is born again," said military historian Salim Said. "This is a chance to finally...
...Washington is casting the conflict in terms quite different from Russia's. While Moscow describes it simply as a "police action against terrorism," President Clinton Thursday referred to Chechnya as instance of ethnic conflict and urged Russia to seek a negotiated solution. So while Putin may be winning the war at home, he's in increasing danger of losing it abroad...