Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rwandan refugee crisis has reached a boiling point now that mass epidemics of cholera and dysentery threaten the lives of thousand. The time has finally come for the United States and the Western powers to make a decision whether or not to intervene and to what degree. If action is to be taken, a plan must be formed before the situation deteriorates, before violence and disease get too far out of control. However the background to the Rwandan crisis merits careful attention before any plans should be made...
...Unix workstation, located down the western hallway of the Science Center basement, will also be moved. A storage closet will be expanded behind the West Terminal room to accomodate an additional 10 workstations...
...courses taken must be a multidisciplinary course and two must be lab science courses. Three of the 10 courses must give the student "world cultural exposure"-in European, United States and non-Western culture...
...10th International AIDS Conference in Yokohama, where much of the attention is focused on the Asian epidemic, which accounted for one-third of all new cases. On the brink of mass infection, say health officials: India, Thailand and Burma. The disease is reported to have plateaued in many Western countries, including the U.S. Worldwide, the disease has infected 17 million...
Bosnian Serb leaders demanded that they be given 64 percent of all Bosnia in exchange for peace -- the first time they've articulated such a claim. Don't bet on their getting what they asked for. They don't have many supporters left: Western leaders are miffed by the Bosnian Serbs' rejection of a peace plan that would have given them 49 percent of Bosnia. (BTW: Serbs comprise just a third of the population of Bosnia). And Yugoslavian Serbs, usually their natural allies, have also publicly excoriated them...