Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excuse is Western women... are uptight andprudish," says a female graduate student...
...roommates and I have a favorite poster that hangs in the position of honor, right next to the bathroom. Created by Accuracy in Academia (that well-known scholarly body), it pictures a young Ronald Reagan in a Western film, with a noose around his neck. The caption reads, "Stop the Liberal/Media Lynch Mob! Tell the Truth About the Reagan Legacy...
...only worsened. Armed militants ambush police, assassinate officials and murder intellectuals and others opposed to the fundamentalist movement. Security forces arrest suspects at will, torture prisoners and sentence alleged rebels to death in extraconstitutional courts. The government attributes the daily civilian slayings to the Islamists. But Algerian and Western sources say antifundamentalist death squads, suspected of links to the security services, also operate during the nightly curfews, kidnapping Islamists or their relatives from home and dumping their bodies nearby...
...increasingly the response of choice to the plethora of small-scale slaughters that prick the West's collective conscience but do not seem important enough to command greater diplomatic or military involvement. The travails in delivery last week were only a symptom of the lack of political will in Western capitals to act forcefully. Humanitarian aid feels good to those who insist that something must be done to stop the killing in Bosnia, in Somalia, in a dozen other bloody conflicts. And it is far more politically palatable than sending soldiers to fight and die in countries -- without strategic assets...
...made it easier for all three factions to move troops and guns. The 300,000 survivors of the two-year-long siege of Sarajevo refer to themselves bitterly as "the well-fed dead," plied with just enough food to keep them alive for more shelling and sniper fire while Western nations refuse them military help to end the siege...