Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thousands of Rwandans have fled to neighboring countries -- some to escape the butchery; others, including Hutu who joined in the killing, fearing retribution from the rebels. Up to 2 million more have jammed into camps within Rwanda, seeking safety in numbers. Most are in government-held territory in the western and southwestern parts of the country, out of reach of aid agencies and at severe risk for epidemics and starvation. United Nations peacekeepers, deployed in the once picturesque capital of Kigali now being shelled into a sprawling ruin, concede they are powerless to intervene: last week the diminutive force...
Perhaps the best-informed analysis comes from a Western diplomat who recently visited Pyongyang and talked with senior government officials including members of the Kim family. This diplomat describes the North Korean attitude as a siege mentality, desperate to maintain itself, fearful of attack. He does not think Kim Il Sung is looking for an economic payoff or playing a self-aggrandizing game of brinkmanship. Rather he is obsessed with assuring the survival not just of the regime but also of the very country he created. The diplomat compares Kim's quest for nuclear power with French President Charles...
...argues, "one only has to consider what happens when aggression is not followed by some kind of punitive measures; not to react in such instances is silently to condone it." Pipes and others contend that Moscow was emboldened to invade Afghanistan in 1979 (which provoked a series of ineffectual Western sanctions) partly because the West did little but huff when Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia...
...have to have values, I happen to thinkthat [those in the Western canon] are the bestvalues in the world," Pipes says...
...Crimson would go on to win the prestigious Potter's Cup post-season tournament at Yale the next weekend, beating Western Ontario, 5-4. Even more, Ezra would go on to win the individual national championship the weekend after that at Brown...