Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nigerian military government's recent execution of nine antigovernment activists, including environmental and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, has elicited international outrage and condemnation. Most notably, the United States and several other countries have withdrawn their ambassadors to Nigeria...
...faith. "They helped me believe in myself," Mayes says, "to realize that anything was possible." John Jones, the children's father, had learned to smoke crack at the age of 16 from his own father and had spent years in jail after stealing to support his habit. Painfully withdrawn, he says, "I've been doing a little talking now." And planning: "I always wanted to own my own fish market, and now I want to live up to that dream." The couple is set to wed. Once off crack, Jones explains with a sidelong glance at Mayes, "I finally...
...that gravely exacerbates this danger--the likelihood that the U.S. will provide arms and training to the Bosnian Muslims. In his speech on Bosnia last Monday, Clinton said that "the U.S. and others [will make] sure the Bosnian federation has the means to defend itself" once peacekeeping troops are withdrawn. The statement reflected the U.S. belief that a military balance of power among Muslims, Serbs and Croats is essential to the peace. Yet achieving such parity will be difficult and dangerous. How the U.S. deals with this problem will be crucial to whether the troops can be withdrawn after...
Ives' goodness is tested, as it inevitably must be, by tragedy. His son is randomly gunned down at Christmastime in 1967, and Ives spends years withdrawn and numb. Unlike Macon Leary, whose child suffers the same fate in Anne Tyler's Accidental Tourist, Ives eventually finds quiet hope not in the arms of a quixotic woman but, less fashionably, through his faith in God. A faith that turns his indifference into compassion rather than hate. Never didactic, Mr. Ives' Christmas is a spare, moving meditation on the spiritual life...
...such a peace, then we might agree to send a similarly token NATO observer force, easily deployed and easily withdrawn. If the Bosnians want a few Americans with a flag and fatigues to lend symbolic legitimacy to the agreement, as in Sinai today--fine again. But no "implementation force," heavily armed and ready for combat. That is an invitation to disaster...