Word: accompli
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...minister Tariq Aziz had been expected to hold out an olive branch at an international press conference Thursday; instead, even as U.S. forces streamed into the Gulf region, the angry and defiant Iraqi spokesman said Baghdad would make no concessions. "Iraq has accepted a U.S. attack as a fait accompli," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "They see it as the next step in their battle against sanctions. Iraq believes it can withstand U.S. attacks, and that pressure from Arab countries will eventually force Washington to back down...
Moore's fait accompli would not finally come until shortly after a Penn score. Whether it was a sense of urgency or simply the hand of fate, Moore's equalizer and Miller's tally shortly thereafter allowed Harvard to finally make good on its threats...
...points out that there is no easy resolution in Indonesia: While the army recognizes the need to replace Suharto, until an obvious successor emerges they?re forced to keep him in power. Dowell believes there will be no signs of a coup against Suharto until it?s a fait accompli: ?Anyone who telegraphs their intentions would be quickly eliminated, so it's not likely that there'll be any signs of a move against Suharto until it?s over.? At the same time, Dowell warns, ?Suharto is a brilliant politician and has all the instincts to come...
...about building a new government, the tycoon Berezovsky yesterday dealt Yeltsin a stunning political blow by being appointed secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States. ?From a standing start, Berezovsky in 10 days managed to persuade 11 presidents of former Soviet Republics to present Yeltsin with an unpalatable fait accompli,? says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. ?Berezovsky ran rings around Yeltsin...
...tenuous. Starr also arguably subverted the protections built into the independent-counsel law by making it impossible for the Justice Department to conduct its own investigation, as it is legally required to, before he started taping Lewinsky. "It sounds like the Justice Department was presented with a fait accompli," says Wake Forest University professor Katy Harriger, author of a book on independent counsels...