Word: flashpoint
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Jerusalem cops had better be stocking up on Maalox, because the city?s historic Temple Mount is shaping up as a flashpoint of, well, biblical proportions. Three right-wing Jewish militants were arrested Thursday after distributing leaflets urging Jews to expel Muslims from the hill, which is also home to Islam?s third holiest site, the Al Aqsa Mosque. The Jewish extremists ? who want the Islamic sites razed in order to rebuild the Jewish temple destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70 in the belief that it will hasten the Messianic era ? were egged on by a handful of American...
Parts of the district avoided problems by eschewing mandatory busing, a flashpoint issue for other communities...
BRCKO, Bosnia: Sometimes in Bosnia the best strategy is to punt. Such was the case Friday, when a mediation panel led by American Roberts Owen decided to leave the northern Bosnian town of Brcko in Serb control for another year. The dilapidated town, which serves as a flashpoint for tensions between Bosnian Muslims and the country's Serbs, is so strategically vital that the 1995 Dayton peace negotiations almost collapsed over it, and both sides say they are prepared to go to war over it again. Owen had tried to avoid an outright award of the town to the Serbs...
...time for new challenges, says Unruhe, a retired high school teacher who is running on behalf of the 90,000 seniors who live in Ventura and the immigrants who harvest its crops. On the flashpoint issue of immigration, Unruhe supports stricter legislation and enforcement, but not the extreme sanctions his opponent proposes, which include deprivation of education and health benefits for children. Unruhe may be tilting at Ventura windmills, but he is undaunted by the challenge...
...peacekeepers, France has a major stake in the largest troop deployment in NATO history. TIME's Bruce Crumley notes that the French now have 7,500 troops in Sarajevo and represent the most experienced contingent of European military units in a divided Serb-Muslim city that could be a flashpoint during the peacekeeping mission...