Word: fractiousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoped Ocalan's capture would decapitate the rebellion and finally bring it to an end. But the well-orchestrated reaction among Europe's 850,000 Kurds suggested that their quest for independence is hardly over. Indeed, the arrest and trial of Ocalan (pronounced Oh-ja-lan) could boomerang, uniting fractious Kurds and galvanizing global sympathy for their cause. For now, though, many Turks are too busy celebrating...
...ultimatum that essentially orders Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic to sign an agreement on autonomy with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians within three weeks. If he doesn't, NATO formally warned him last Saturday that he will face bomb and missile attacks from the alliance's planes and ships. The fractious Albanian groups, including the hard-line guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.), are also on notice that they must do the same, though NATO is vague about how they will be punished if they don't. If the plan works, Kosovo would end up with a large degree...
They broke up 20 years ago, victims of the apocalyptic burnout endemic to '70s rock bands. Now Strange Fruit is back for one fractious nostalgia trip to make a few quid and see if the flame still burns. This retro comedy, cannily written by The Commitments' Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, gives such fine British actors as Bill Nighy, Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail and Bruce Robinson the chance to strut, scowl, sing some jaunty tunes (by '70s survivors Mick Jones, Steve Dagger and Jeff Lynne) and define what it means to be mates in a middle age the rockers...
...their king, but Israelis and Palestinians love him anyway. Jordan's King Hussein was welcomed home to the Middle East Tuesday like a parent returned to calm a fractious household. He has spent the past six months in the U.S. being treated for cancer, and signaled his renewed vigor by piloting his own plane home. "No one can match King Hussein's respect among both Israelis and Palestinians, and his role in the peace process was badly missed," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "He is one of the few Arab leaders who doesn't a different language with...
...quietly collaborating with Daschle and other Senators on a plan to rush the impeachment issue through the Senate in just a few weeks. Daschle told Lott that the Democrats and the White House would go along with the idea, but Lott said he wasn't sure yet whether his fractious Republicans would do the same. The plan, which Lott would float publicly within hours, envisioned a sort of mini-trial, with opening arguments by prosecutors and the White House and few or no witnesses called by either side. After that would come a series of votes to determine whether...