Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week. At the White House, President Clinton maintained an upbeat tone, offering a new plan to eliminate the home sales tax and lower the top capital gains rate from 28 percent to 20 percent. That's "a reflection of how serious the President is" about reaching an agreement, White House spokesman Mike McCurry told reporters. But it's more like a political endgame to the budget fiasco, notes TIME's Michael Duffy. "The Republicans knew last week it was all over. The White House may not have realized it until a few days ago, but they do now. So Clinton...
Congressional leaders did manage to reach bipartisan agreement on a $265 billion defense bill, which President Clinton is expected to sign, after vetoing an earlier effort last month. In the new legislation, Congress dropped three provisions the President could not accept: a missile defense system, restrictions on the President's power to commit American troops to United Nations missions and a requirement that he request new funds for any overseas military actions...
...Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke arrived in the Bosnian capital on Thursday, less than 36 hours before the first major deadline of the Dayton Peace accord, to assess the progress of the international peacekeeping mission and to help keep the heat on the warring parties to abide by the agreement he worked so hard to win. By midnight Friday, according to the treaty, all the warring parties are to have pulled their soldiers and weapons behind cease-fire lines and released all prisoners of war. Military observers in Bosnia agree that the demilitarization is proceeding on schedule. But there have...
...bilking the Rose Law Firm. Ward, say investigators, was a sham purchaser of the 1,000-plus-acre plot south of Little Rock because the only security Madison required for the loan was the land itself. A computer printout among the billings reveals that Mrs. Clinton drafted an option agreement for Ward to sell part of the project back to Madison...
SARAJEVO: An expected POW exchange was put on hold when Bosnia's Muslim government balked at the last minute, delaying the planned release of more than 500 Serb prisoners of war. The move cast new doubts on the future of the Dayton peace agreement, which calls for all sides to release their prisoners by Friday. Bosnian government officals say that Serbs have not lived up to their end of the bargain by offering only to release 200 Muslim prisoners. At issue for the government are the some 24,000 Muslims unaccounted for in 3 1/2 years of Balkan war. Many...