Word: albright
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MOSCOW: Good thing the Russians see her as Ms. Moneybags: Madeleine Albright got a rough ride from Moscow mayor and presidential candidate Yuri Luzkhov Monday, but found Russia's government pliable by comparison. "She's asking for Moscow to accept unpalatable positions on issues ranging from missile treaties to Kosovo, but the Russians have their backs to the wall," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "The IMF money on which their budget depends has been frozen, which makes it essential to play along with U.S. requests...
...landed in the hands of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the members of the Security Council, the U.S. had begun to accelerate, though quietly, toward war. On the way back from the Middle East on Air Force One on Tuesday morning, Clinton, flanked by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, called his military advisers and Vice President Al Gore to discuss the Butler report. The group agreed air strikes were the right response. Clinton then got assurances of British participation from Prime Minister Tony Blair. At 10 p.m. Tuesday, Peter Burleigh, acting American ambassador...
...terrorist attack in the nation's capital. They settled in that Wednesday morning to consider four scenarios: a car-bomb attack, a chemical-weapons strike on a Washington Redskins football game, the planting of an explosive device in a federal building and an assassination attempt on Madeleine Albright, the Secretary of State. But the war game--intended to help the agencies practice working together--quickly melted down into interagency squabbling and finger pointing...
...hand-wringing and brainstorming are part of what Albright calls "the war of the future"--a battle in which the foot soldiers are elusive terrorists and the agents are in pursuit. The enemy in this case is a 41-year-old Goldfinger with a bank account of $100 million to $300 million, a far-flung network of cohorts and a fiery hatred for the U.S., which he badly wants out of Saudi Arabia, his homeland. The bloodiest round of this new war came on Aug. 7 when bin Laden's agents allegedly bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing...
...kind of report embassy security officers detest. A warning that tells you everything and nothing. Nevertheless, extra guards were posted at the front and back of the building, and nervous security officers convinced their ambassador, Prudence Bushnell, to fire off a letter to Albright warning that the embassy was vulnerable to car bombs. But Nairobi's remained low on the priority list of embassies due for major security upgrades...