Word: western
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...military leadership is almost universally despised since its ruthless suppression of what became known, in a variation on Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring, as the "Rangoon Fall." Western diplomats estimate that troops killed some 2,000 unarmed civilians in street clashes following the takeover by General Saw Maung, who took power in a coup last September. Since then, more students and other protesters have been arrested or shot. Government employees deemed sympathetic to the democracy movement are being purged from their jobs. Troops are everywhere, even in the compound of the Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma's holiest shrine. "They have stripped away...
There is a widespread conviction that the regime cannot survive for long -- at best until the rice harvest early next year. The government has virtually no foreign reserves. Exports have almost vanished. Western governments and Japan have cut off all their assistance, which is necessary to supply the military and maintain the decrepit industrial plant, while ethnic insurgents are applying pressure along the borders. "Logically, the government cannot hold on," says a young Burmese intellectual. "Unfortunately, there's not much logic in this government...
Meanwhile, the legal market for elephant ivory is on the increase. "Our fear is that the recent resurgence in heavy poaching of elephants may spill over onto black rhino," says David Western, director of Wildlife Conservation International. In Kenya alone the black-rhino population has dwindled from 20,000 in 1970 to only 450 today...
December 7: In order to decrease the massive number of Americans fleeing to Canada and Western Europe, Quayle is secretly replaced by a lifelike robot, controlled by Roger Ailes and Jim Baker...
...gone, with its results surprising to only the most tenacious idealists. George Bush can finally add President of the United States to his already formidable resume. He won every state in the South, most states in the Northeast, all but a few states in the Midwest and virtually every Western state including California. It may not amount to a mandate for him, but it does equal a monumental rejection of the Democratic Party's national agenda...