Word: weekly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...omens were bleak from the start. As talks got under way in Brussels last week in the final round of negotiations on revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 30,000 European and Japanese farmers marched through clouds of tear gas in the city center, destroying property and brandishing placards opposing cuts in agricultural subsidies. The farmers' fury helped torpedo the GATT's four-year attempt to set new guidelines for nearly $4 trillion in global commerce. The effort collapsed on Friday when the European Community refused to meet demands by the U.S. and other major food exporters...
When Idriss Deby and his rebel army rolled into the capital city of N'Djamena last week, the reaction of the 1,800-man French force stationed in the country was almost blase. As expected, the guerrilla leader quickly proclaimed himself President and promised to bring parliamentary democracy to his impoverished country...
...defense under Habre, Deby helped mastermind a series of lightning attacks that drove Gaddafi out of northern Chad in 1983 and again in 1987. But after Habre accused him of plotting a coup last year, Deby fled to the Sudan, where he began recruiting his army. A final three-week assault launched last month quickly overwhelmed forces loyal to Habre, who fled across the Chari River into Cameroon...
...amity between Deby and Gaddafi does not seem to extend to the Aozou Strip, a mineral-rich area in northern Chad that Gaddafi claims belongs to Libya. Deby made it clear last week that if necessary he will fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands. That may encourage Gaddafi to assist yet another rebel army with the aim of overthrowing yet another government...
...some voices are being raised. Amnesty International has asked for permission to send a team of observers to monitor future trials; Beijing has ! warned that outside attempts to influence China's judicial system "will get nowhere." And last week, Congressman Robert Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat and a member of the House subcommittee on Asian affairs, who was visiting Beijing, took up the issue of the detainees in discussions with Vice Foreign Minister Liu Huaqiu and other Chinese officials. Torricelli said he urged the government to grant amnesty to the detainees and explained that assuming the West no longer cared...