Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff that turned up the pressure on the exhausted number crunchers. This was because the Republicans also needed Clinton to endorse a CBO-approved plan, so they could claim they had got at least something out of him in return for what they considered their big cave-in, the agreement to reopen the government...
Dole and Daschle, both Senators with long experience in the trenches, will do what they can to rescue any bill that looks viable. They even discussed the possibility of treating any budget agreement as if it were a "reconciliation bill." That means debate would be limited and opponents of the plan could not filibuster in the Senate, making it a lot easier for the measure to be approved. What many Democrats will have to decide is whether they can stomach a compromise far less fair than they would like, on the grounds that it still might be the best first...
...White House concedes that Feinman collaborated on about eight chapters, which they say the First Lady reworked. Under a confidentiality agreement, Feinman can't comment publicly. Nothing, however, forbids Mrs. Clinton to cite her collaborator. But her acknowledgement page thanks no one by name...
Bitterness over the war and its conclusion spells finis for the career of Karadzic and possibly that of Bosnia's military commander, General Ratko Mladic. So does the Dayton peace agreement negotiated in the U.S. last year. It bars both of them from political office because they have been indicted as war criminals by a special tribunal in the Hague. Karadzic's slide is triggering a struggle for power inside the Serb Democratic Party, the movement he heads. In addition, opposition parties have arisen in a new power center, the northwestern Serb city of Banja Luka, which has long been...
...even two months ago. The Serbs at the meeting were of the diehard variety, and as Karadzic and Momcilo Krajisnik, speaker of the Serb assembly, sat a few feet away, critic after critic stepped to the podium inside the looming Hotel Bistrica to denounce their leadership. Under the Dayton agreement, four Serb-held districts and suburbs of Sarajevo, which are Karadzic's main power base, must be turned over to the Muslim and Croat government of Bosnia by March 19. The Serbs remember the Vance-Owen peace plan that was much more favorable for them but was rejected by Karadzic...