Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people," says Bolich. Soon after arriving last fall, she was speaking Xhosa, dancing to the local jazz and spending nights with friends in the townships. Says Melanie Jacobs, her roommate, who is mixed-race: "She was color-blind and completely at home with us." At the University of the Western Cape, African National Congress legal expert and executive member Dullah Omar guided her research on women's issues and voter education. But her interests pulled her back to the townships, where the real work of instilling democracy will be done...
Whether acting up a dust storm or working the ranch or raising horses for polo (his team recently won the U.S. Polo Association's Western Challenge Cup), Jones stays rooted in the Texas soil. "Natives of my region," he says, "are heirs to a society whose language, manners, cuisine, habits of dress, transportation, ways of socializing with one another are not so removed from location as others are. We're still tied to a place. We happen to think it's important to be from some place...
...crackdown on Islamic militants. Al-Alfi's car was rocked by a bomb not far from Cairo's busy Tahrir Square. Islamic Jihad, the group that killed President Anwar Sadat in 1981, took responsibility. Muslim fundamentalists have waged a violent two-year campaign to replace the Western-leaning government of President Hosni Mubarak with an Islamic regime...
...past four years, Western intelligence agencies have suspected Sudan of playing a major role in promoting Islamic terror around the world. But there still hasn't been any real proof offered: no reputable eyewitnesses, no photographs, no documents. Nevertheless, the U.S. last week put its official stamp on the proposition, adding the country to its short list of pariah states sponsoring terrorism. The State Department declared that "evidence currently available" showed that Sudan allows its territory to be used as a sanctuary and training ground for all manner of Muslim fundamentalist and radical organizations. The announcement followed news reports that...
Sudan claims that these "farms" are simply camps for its Popular Defense Forces, Islamic militias that fight along with the Sudanese armed forces. But the presence of Iranians associated with Tehran's fearsome Revolutionary Guard has convinced Western intelligence agents that far more insidious activities are going on. This is the first time that Persian Shi'ite Iran has allied itself with an Arab Sunni Muslim government, but both regimes share a passionate disdain for neighboring secular states. Now that Libya and Syria are attempting to curry favor in the West by cutting their support for terrorist groups, says Philip...