Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same is true of the Second World War: when Hitler was getting ready to invade Czechoslovakia, and in so doing finally expose the lack of courage on the part of the western democracies, your President wrote a letter to the Czechoslovak President imploring him to come to some agreement with Hitler. Had he not deceived himself and the whole world into believing that an agreement could be made with this madman, had he instead shown a few teeth, perhaps the Second World War need not have happened and tens of thousands of young Americans need not have died fighting...
Such was the tough talk at the beginning of the week. By week's end, however, it was evident that no such significant changes would be made. As a Western diplomat put it, the situation in Bosnia was "going to be the same mishmash it has been." There would be no move from peacekeeping to forcible peacemaking, NATO defense ministers reaffirmed at a meeting in Brussels. At the same time, U.N. officials in the former Yugoslavia insisted that the new rapid-reaction force would operate under the rules that had applied since the beginning. The force would defend peacekeepers...
...plan. It does include assisting peacekeepers in danger and facilitating freer movement on Bosnia's roads. But, says a U.N. official who attended the meetings, they "are not going to blast their way through anything." They can fire back if fired upon, but they must not take sides. A Western diplomat who participated summed up the basic truth: "None of these countries wants to go to war on behalf of the Bosnian government...
...indistinguishable from the algae, the power gardener knows just where to turn. Contrary to their earthy image, gardeners are twice as likely as the general population to own a computer (60%). Next month Sunset Publishing, the Northern California-based book-and-magazine company most noted for its expertise on Western gardening, will release a CD-ROM with the largest encyclopedic plant data base on the market. Ken Winchester says the gardener will be able to type in a ZIP code and every plant species that thrives in that specific zone will pop up. Better Homes and Gardens unveiled...
...below the 16-year-old Shaq; 2 in. below the New York Knicks' Patrick Ewing, whom he beat in last year's N.B.A. Finals; and 3 in. below the San Antonio Spurs' David Robinson, the 1994-95 N.B.A. mvp, whom he beat like a drum in this year's Western Conference finals...