Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night, December 10, 1999, the first president of modern Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, died. He was elected three times by an absolute majority of the Croatian people. Croatians consider him the father of their nation. Consequently, a BBC series documenting his life bears the title "Franjo Tudjman--The Croatian George Washington." I would like to take the occasion of Tudjman's death to reflect on his achievements. This seems especially important given the cold attitude of the Western media towards his death...
...backed up by any credible threat. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warned Friday that the U.S. was "reviewing" loans to Russia as she joined G7 foreign ministers and her Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, in Berlin for talks on the crisis. But President Clinton last week emphasized Washington's belief that sanctions are an inappropriate response to the Chechnya situation, and Moscow isn't likely to lose any sleep over the latest warnings. Having reportedly lost an armored column in a botched assault on Grozny Wednesday, Russian forces continued relentlessly shelling the Chechen capital Friday...
Somewhere in the corridors of power in Washington stands a metaphorical closet jam-packed with Rwandan skeletons. President Clinton admitted as much last year when he apologized to Rwanda for the West's failure to act in 1994 when faced with overwhelming evidence that genocide was under way in the central African country. But a U.N.-commissioned report released Thursday makes the point more sharply: The United Nations chose to ignore reports of the impending bloodbath, and its inaction was due in no small part to the desire of Washington and its allies to turn a blind...
...While it was very clear that action was needed, Washington played a major role in influencing the decision to take no action," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Having just come out of the Somalia debacle, which had been badly managed by both the U.S. and the U.N., Washington didn't want to get involved in another complex conflict in Africa." Of course, while the solutions were complex, the numbers were devastatingly simple: 800,000 people were killed in one month in Rwanda as Hutu mobs butchered their Tutsi neighbors...
Your move, Washington. A day after a U.S. got the UN Security Council to approve a new system to get arms inspectors back into Iraq, Saddam Hussein gave his answer: Nobody's coming in here until the UN lifts its sanctions against my country. Under the proposed deal, the previous inspection body, UNSCOM, would to be replaced by an entirely new organization, UNMOVIC (U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission) with little continuity in staff. "The old hands at UNSCOM fear that the new body will be a papier-m?ch? organization, unable to carry out effective inspections," says TIME U.N. correspondent...