Word: war-torn
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Just how the new government intends to shape the future of the war-torn nation remains unclear. Mugabe has announced few specific policies, and according to several Cabinet members, will probably not do so fully for another six months. But there is no doubt about his most urgent priorities: removing all racist institutions, reconstructing the country's devastated rural areas and redressing the present 10-to-1 ratio between white and black incomes...
Israeli army units last week moved into southern Lebanon, by now familiar territory to them, in response to a terrorist attack on one of their border settlements. An Israeli assault force probed several miles into the war-torn country with armored personnel carriers, bulldozers and more than 300 troops. The armor quickly fanned out into the six-mile-wide border enclave controlled by Israel's Lebanese Christian Militia allies. Other Israeli units, mostly infantry, moved farther north, along areas patrolled by the 6,000-man United Nations peace-keeping force that has been deployed in southern Lebanon...
...smoke-shrouded battlefield. By week's end, in spite of two abortive ceasefires, hundreds were dead, many of them civilians caught in the crossfire. Some 600 foreigners, including U.S. Ambassador Donald Norland, and up to 30,000 of Chad's 4.5 million people had fled the war-torn country. In the capital, entire city blocks lay in ruins. Said one shaken Frenchman on arriving in neighboring Cameroon: "N'Djamena is finished...
...resettlement scheme, a failing that contributed to its crushing electoral defeat last month. But Mugabe's government has already sought pledges of substantial aid from the U.S., Britain, Scandinavia and Western Europe-but not from the Soviet bloc. Foreign assistance will be sorely needed: estimates for rebuilding the war-torn nation range close to $6 billion...
...with a Shona tribesman at its head. Yet the two leaders had at least one thing in common: each had an almost mystical belief that his personal destiny was intertwined with that of this hauntingly beautiful country. As Robert Mugabe took on the burden of governing and rebuilding that war-torn land last week, he might well have repeated the founder's dying words: "So little done, so much...