Word: abroadly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge notes, the latest medical emergency only underlines a sobering reality, that the Boris Yeltsin of today is a pale shadow of the dynamic leader of 1992. While Yeltsin continues to represent stability in Russia to his supporters at home and admirers abroad, the vigorous President Yeltsin they support is no longer evident. After Yeltsin's re-election in July, everyone hoped for the return of the man who was bold, decisive and committed to sweeping change. Now, some presidential aides have come to refer to their diminished leader as Yeltsin Number Two, says...
...group came up with several paradigms of U.S. action abroad. Humanitarianism, we decided, meant that the U.S. would send troops on international peacekeeping missions, continue allocating foreign aid and push for human rights. We also discussed and rejected isolationism--which we defined as leaving U.S. interests abroad entirely in the hands of other countries--and "engagement and enlargement," President Clinton's national security strategy...
...wrong. The other student participants were well-educated, and their reasons for distrusting the U.N. and other international organizations were at least as intellectually valid as the prevailing arguments for U.S. engagement abroad...
...that he had proof that TWA Flight 800 was accidentally shot down by a U.S. Navy missile. His proof turned out to be an elaborate Internet rumor. James Hall, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, chastised Salinger "for raising confusion in the minds of many people here and abroad...for causing consternation and pain to the families of the victims" and for promoting third-hand information "as some scoop of his." Talk about getting shot down...
ROQUEBRUNE-CAP-MARTIN, France: President Mobutu Sese Seko made his long-anticipated return to Zaire Tuesday. But after four months abroad, no one seems to know what awaits the ailing President. A heavily armed convoy escorted Mobutu to one of his residences at Camp Tashatshi military base."This is certainly a significant event, but signifying what, no one is really sure," says TIME's Peter Graff. Sources say that Mobutu has weeks, possibly months, to live, but if he has an agenda for his last days other than trying to fight off prostate cancer, he isn't saying. Government officials...