Word: aggressor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Panama has no standing army and its 12,000 domestic security personnel would be no match for any serious aggressor, the 1977 treaty also allows the U.S. to intervene militarily if the security of the Canal Zone is threatened. And since Beijing's ability to project military power even as far as Taiwan and the Spratly Islands is looking somewhat questionable, Central America is probably a little out of reach. "We wouldn't have adopted the treaty if it was going to hurt national security," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "And besides, there's no strategic threat...
...concern for a child's innocence, Pera might have underlined the corruptive nature of a man's lust for a girl on the cusp of pubescence. Instead, her Lo is the aggressor, the seducer and, eventually, the dismisser. "I'm going to get this Humbert for myself," she tells her diary. She instructs him in the finer points of sex play. And when "Hummie-Dummie" devolves into a nagging "Mama Humbert," she leaves with Filthy--after giving the drugged Hum a goodbye sodomizing with the pen he'd used for his own diary...
...costs Milosevic wants to maintain his fiction that Serbia won the war and Kosovo is not lost. To achieve this illusion, Milosevic has had to engineer one of the strangest U-turns in the history of propaganda. First, NATO was the enemy, the evil aggressor who bombed Serbia. Now peacekeepers from NATO countries are said to be protecting the Serbs--and, ultimately, their stake in the province. Last week TIME's Belgrade team assembled a week's worth of Milosevic's propaganda. Then we turned to some spin experts for their analysis. Though they spotted some holes, it's clear...
...opposition. While fear of a showdown between two nuclear-armed states certainly internationalized the conflict, it may have done so on terms favorable to India: Even such long-term Pakistan allies as the U.S. and China urged Pakistan to withdraw, and the almost universal perception of Pakistan as the aggressor has actually strengthened India?s diplomatic standing. And while the incursion may have initially swung military hawks and religious fundamentalists behind the government, agreeing to end it without any tangible gain seems very likely to have the opposite effect...
...comes as no surprise that since the bombing our already delicate relations with China have been severely strained. Thousands of protestors have mobbed the U.S. embassy in Beijing; the Chinese have come to regard Milosevic as a hero, President Clinton as a tyrant and NATO as an aggressor...