Word: accords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strictly honest, traveling under false colors; G.I. Jane should probably be called Swabbie Jane since it is the Navy SEALS that O'Neil is trying so painfully to join. She is also traveling a few years in the future when, the movie's makers imagine, feminist pressure to accord women full military equality, by allowing them to serve even in the riskiest specialties, has become irresistible. Irresistible, that is, when that pressure is applied to the Pentagon by wily Lillian DeHaven, a U.S. Senator whose scheming soul Anne Bancroft inhabits with rip-snorting relish. The brass, of course, expect...
...Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild of America have threatened to file suit over the ratings, citing infringement of free speech. Vice President Al Gore, whose wife Tipper Gore led the fight to rate commercial lyrics, is expected to announce the accord today at the White House...
There are still issues pulling us apart. The most prominent, as it has been throughout our history, is race. At a town meeting on affirmative action in Sacramento, we saw glimmers of potential accord, but there remains a conflict between two basic approaches: giving no special preferences based on skin color and finding ways to ensure that all citizens share equally in the American Dream. We also met people, like those in the coal mines of West Virginia, being left behind by the new economic forces...
...helicopters swooped down on the Croatian village of Prevrsac, and out of one climbed U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright with a gaggle of reporters and cameramen in tow. She had just given President Franjo Tudjman a public lecture in Zagreb for failing to live up to the peace accord that ended the Yugoslav civil war 18 months earlier. In Prevrsac, standing, with cameras rolling, in front of a burned-out Serb home, she dressed down one of Tudjman's ministers over Croatian attacks against returning refugees. "It's disgusting," Albright snapped. Secretaries of State usually make their protests...
Foreign leaders are discovering that she's difficult to bully. Before meeting Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade, her aides warned that the Serbian President would try to throw her off stride early in the session. As she began reciting a laundry list of Serbian violations of the peace accord, Milosevic did just that, interrupting with a patronizing smile: "Madame Secretary, you're not well informed." Albright, who had spent three years in Belgrade as a child, retorted, "Don't tell me I'm uninformed. I lived here." Milosevic's smile disappeared...