Active Vocabulary

1.	unrest	беспорядки
	fighting	бои
	to rage	бушевать
	to declare a cease-fire	объявить прекращение огня
	rebel/rebellion	повстанец/восстание
	v. to rebel	восставать
	clash	столкновение
A».	escalation of the conflict	нарастание конфликта
3.	to erupt	вспыхнуть
	to be wounded	быть раненым
	casualties	потери убитыми и ранеными
4.	civilians	гражданские лица
	to flee homes	покинуть дома
	cessation of hostilities	прекращение боевых действий
	v. to cease	прекращать
	breakaway faction	отделившаяся фракция
5.	atrocities	зверства
	violence	насилие
	refugee	беженец
6.	monitor	наблюдатель
	outbreak of violence	вспышка насилия
	to injure	ранить

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7. warring parties civil war foe truce to host talks

to topple smb

воюющие стороны гражданская война враг, недруг перемирие

быть местом проведения пере­говоров свергнуть

8. full-scale war military takeover

полномасштабная война захват власти военными

9. fierce fighting bid

ожесточенные бои попытка

10. guerrilla

11. all-out war

партизан, партизанский

всеобщая война

12. genocide

ethnic cleansing to displace

геноцид

этническая чистка перемещать

2. Find the English for the following word combinations used in the articles of this section (the number of the arti­cle is given in brackets):

бедный, нищий (1), разработать платформу для пере­говоров (3), добиваться независимости (3), иметь числен­ное превосходство (3), устроить засаду (4), предвари­тельные переговоры (4), приверженность (7), штаб (7), взяться за оружие (7), начать наступление (9), иностран­ная помощь (12).

§ 4. Hostilities

3. Translate the sentences paying attention to the under­lined words.

1. The presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia met Monday to discuss the two nations' dispute over the Nagorny Karabarh region that erupted into war 11 years ago.

2. Australian Prime Minister J. H. said U. N.-backed peace­keeping troops in East Timor have a wider right to use force than was given in previous international peacekeeping opera­tions. Howard said the greater right allows the peacekeepers to defend themselves and to stop atrocities committed by local combatants.

3. At least 13 civilians and five Hutu militiamen were killed over the weekend as government troops clashed with the rebels near the Burundian capital and in the south of the country, state radio said Monday. Sustained light arms fire, followed by artil­lery shelling broke out less than three miles from Bujumbura.

4. Factional fighting has dragged the people of Somalia's capital back to the darkest days of the civil war in 1992.

5. Weeks of unrest that erupted into violence led B. to im­pose a state of emergency on Sunday.

6. Fighting that ended that year took more than 35,000 lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee.

7. A resumption of fighting could be disastrous, because the Caucasus today is delicately balanced between prosperity and chaos.

8. Turkey remained wary of Syrian promises to curb the ac­tivities of Kurdish rebels on its soil, after Damascus bowed to Turkish pressure and pledged immediate cessation of its support for the rebel Kurdistan Worker's Party.

9. Getting down to serious work after Saturday's ceremonial opening, international mediators presented warring factions with the framework agreement worked out by the six-nation Contact Group and a set of 10 non-negotiable principles for the talks.

10. С and the leaders of many other nations attending the summit have been concerned about the sizeable number of civil-

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ian casualties in the conflict and the increasing number of refu­gees it has generated.

11. Moscow insists it is on the verge of a victory in the breakaway republic that makes concerns of a prolonged blood­bath unfounded.

12. Israeli and Palestinian security forces were preparing last night for another outbreak of violence after the apparently in­conclusive Washington summit.

13. East Timor marked its 21-st anniversary under Indone­sian rule on Thursday amid reports of escalating military repres­sion in the former Portuguese colony and a hardening of the Ja­karta government's stance on ongoing sovereignty negotiations.

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