Word: beene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The officer commanding the base, Colonel Yuri Em, invites us to lunch. No one was expecting us, we are told as we sit down to a light but tasty lunch of borscht followed by meat and buckwheat and served by young women in dazzling white mess jackets. Somehow this does...
Gudermes is muddy and miserable and seems half-empty. As in Grozny, some residents are holed up in apartment blocks that look to Western eyes as if they have been rendered uninhabitable by artillery fire. The city has no lights, no gas, no work. As our convoy drives up to...
Still, it's too early to count out the embargo's tenacious Cuban-American lobby. Its chief muscle is in the House, where efforts similar to Ashcroft's have been killed this year. "Trading with the most anti-American dictator in the world is a cheap, cynical manipulation of farmers...
In the comments that landed her in trouble, Mrs. Arafat did have a point, if not quite the stiletto she intended. While playing host to Mrs. Clinton in Ramallah, she lamented the "damage" caused by Israel's use of "poisonous gas" against Palestinians. It's true that tear gas, frequently...
Suha has aggravated resentments among Arafat's closest aides by claiming they are corrupt; they in turn claim she uses her position to seek out business opportunities. If Arafat's men once feared his wife would distract him, that worry has been dispelled. In interviews Suha grouses that Arafat allows...