Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ethnic Albanians at Racak on Jan. 15 that G.I.s would have to be deployed as peacekeepers. With that decision in her purse, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sped through Europe last week, pushing the allies into an ultimatum that essentially orders Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic to sign an agreement on autonomy with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians within three weeks. If he doesn't, NATO formally warned him last Saturday that he will face bomb and missile attacks from the alliance's planes and ships. The fractious Albanian groups, including the hard-line guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A...
...bold. But spurred by the resumption of civilian slaughter, Albright insisted it was time the allies demand "an interim political settlement." All right, replied the allies, but only if the U.S. will follow through: peacekeepers must go in on the ground for years to make an agreement stick, and American troops must be among them. Administration officials did not say so publicly, but they signaled NATO for the first time--and confirmed to TIME--that they were willing to go along...
...considered the details. Instead, they say Radcliffe insists on negotiating on the big-picture level, while Harvard stubbornly focuses on the fine print. One high-level observer said only in the past few weeks have more specific talks zeroed in on financial and legal stumbling blocks to an agreement. Outstanding issues include the fate of Radcliffe's $200 million endowment and its prime Cambridge real estate...
With the details of a bilateral agreement still not ironed out, some now say that Radcliffe needs to make some sort of announcement soon--no matter if Harvard is on board...
Last month, she points out, "the AMA called the sex article inappropriate and an interjection of politics into medicine. Now the AMA reaches a new agreement with Lundberg and issues a glowing statement about his accomplishments. It leaves you wondering whether they are talking about the same man." Since the firing, the AMA has come under strong criticism from some in the medical profession who believe the incident has compromised the journal's editorial independence. Whatever the reasons for the AMA's change of heart, the whole episode is yet another indication of how far the unpredictable ripples of impeachment...