Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...falling back to another prepared position until it reached an area that was finally defensible. Experts deemed it a reasonable strategy; not only is Krajina too large to defend in its entirety, but the weight of both geography and history were on their side. "They are frontiersmen," said one Western diplomat in Belgrade, who pointed out that Serbs were first sent to Krajina by the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a buffer against the Turks. "These guys were the eternal defense." On Saturday night, however, the situation took an unexpected twist when word arrived that the entire Krajina Serb army seemed...
...Tudjman is trying to get it back. In May he seized an area known as Western Slavonia (in the eastern part of Croatia) with ease from rebel Serbs, and if he wins back Krajina, Croatia's borders will be largely restored. What the consequences of this effort will be depends on Tudjman's own shrewdness and on the reaction of Milosevic. Right now the Serbian President appears exceedingly disinclined to enter the war on the side of his embattled brethren. The rebel Serb causes in Croatia and Bosnia have recently fallen from his protective grace as Milosevic has concentrated...
...biggest international effort in recent years, the Gulf War, was ultimately paid for by our European allies; we brought the guns, everyone else provided the funding. In fact, the U.S. already ranks only 20th, behind not only such smaller Western countries, as Britain and France but also in back of several developing countries, in contributions to U.N. peacekeeping missions. Given the extremely low American participation in U.N. efforts at a time in which regional conflicts are proliferating, the desire to spend $1.5 billion on submarines and Star Wars in the absence of any immediate superpower threat seriously undermines our international...
Like most Western citizens, I have received daily updates for the past few years on the progress of the genocide perpetrated against Muslim in Bosnia. Jennings, Rather and Brokaw have all been yelling about the killings, rapes and refugees. Current and former presidents have now gone on CNN, babbling about quagmire, to explain why the U.S. has complied with global inaction. The United Nations, MacNeil and Lehrer's favorite organization, became an accomplice to the destruction of one of its own members nations. I have had to watch all of this...
...investigation."TIME's Suneel Ratannotes that despite "the televised pandemonium, the real impact of the hearings so far is in the thousands of documents Leach is dropping on the assembled press corps." In one of the documents, Hillary Clinton says: "If Reaganomics works at all, Whitewater will be the western hemisphere's mecca...