Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...independent candidates who are winning local races. It appears that many blacks are disillusioned with the pace of change coming from the government, and are putting their faith in these independents. The white National Party hasn't been completely shut out. They will maintain an overall majority in the western Cape area of the country...
...streets of Sarajevo. Earlier last year, the peacekeeping sentinel sat on his hands as a volcanic outbreak of bloodshed in Rwanda engulfed half a million people. What appears now to be a prospect for peace in Bosnia has not afforded any graceful exit for the U.N.: only after the Western governments took over the trigger and American diplomacy entered the breach did a settlement begin to take shape...
...much of the world still honors this middle-aged venture is evident, then. But among some Western nations that designed it, at least, the U.N. today often appears worse than dowdy. To them it looks oafish, overgrown, hypocritical, rife with ineptitude and possibly--as some overwrought Americans insist on seeing it--downright wicked. By this light, the creation of a half-century ago comports with reality now about as much as the cookie-cutter shapes of its East River edifices still evoke an idealized modernity. Budget-strapped, groping for a fresh start, the U.N. seems to slouch toward the millennium...
...reform fatigue leads Western countries to despair for the U.N., a number of critics prescribe benign neglect for a creature swollen with rhetoric, unread paperwork and merely stray achievements on the ground. Many agencies are financed in large part by voluntary funds; governments could favor worthwhile functions and let the rest wither away. Parsons' verdict: "Well, let it become irrelevant if it won't reform itself. Don't let's waste too much time and the energy of clever...
...Pavel Grachev and his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of Defense William Perry, agreed on a force of "several thousand." But the two sides failed to resolve the central issue: whether the Russian troops will serve under NATO command. Yuri Zarakhovich reports from Moscow: "Yeltsin cannot afford placing Russian units under Western command -- not on the verge of the elections to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, which will be held in an atmosphere of rapidly mounting and shrill anti-Western xenophobia...