His immediate problem is the Niger Delta, the source of almost all of Nigeria's oil wealth and the battleground for numerous local wars, with rival groups fighting for resources and the largesse of the big oil companies operating there.

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"It's the most negative campaign I've ever seen, " said Paul Blanchard, head of Eastern Kentucky University's Center of Kentucky History and Politics and a 30-year veteran of local political wars.

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Theological differences that appear arcane or even meaningless to many people today triggered a seemingly interminable round of local and international wars.

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Gay's husband was president of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter, and she led the group's Ladies' Auxiliary.

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Keith Yoakum and other Hemet High heroes will be soon be memorialized, when the Veterans of Foreign Wars name the local post after them.

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American policy was already failing because its three local allies, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Uganda, had become embroiled in wars.

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Local, national and international criminal networks help finance an interconnected network of civil and international wars.

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The local history society is currently collecting names of servicemen and women who have died in all wars to be included on the memorial.

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