Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lauding peace efforts in the Middle East and the former Yugoslavia, Karamanlis said, "Nobody who shares Western values can support extremism...
PARIS: The time for talking may soon be over. The Serb delegation arrived at the Kosovo peace talks Tuesday with a new set of amendments to the Western-authored peace plan, which were bluntly rejected by mediators. With the Kosovar Albanians now ready to sign, the focus is once again on forcing the hand of the Serbs. "The original premise of the talks was that the fundamentals of the agreement are nonnegotiable," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "The Serbs won't be allowed to renegotiate it. And with NATO threatening to bomb him into compliance, the question may once...
...says all three groups were part of an organized ring smuggling illegal aliens into the U.S. Since February 1996 the agency has arrested more than 3,000 people at Sky Harbor. "This is a pretty enterprising group of individuals," says Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for the Western regional office of the INS. "Drug smuggling gets a lot more press. But the smuggling of human beings is a multibillion-dollar enterprise...
Iran is today's one great national cinema. Not since the Czech New Wave of the mid-'60s has a country made such a lovely noise at the big festivals and in Western capitals where the term foreign film doesn't evoke a yawn. Directors Abbas Kiarostami (A Taste of Cherry), Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon) and Samira's father Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Gabbeh) are as revered in the world film community as they are anonymous at American 'plexes...
Muir, in fact, wrote the book on environmentalism--and more than one. Our National Parks, The Yosemite and The Mountains of California helped shape the nation's attitudes on conservation. Some would argue that were it not for his impassioned writings, little of the rugged Western wilderness would have survived...