Word: bergere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expects the operation to be bloodless. The White House has begun preparing Americans for unpleasant pictures from Baghdad and less-than-perfect results from the battlefield. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Defense Secretary William Cohen and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger were scheduled to hold a town meeting in Columbus, Ohio, this week on the military operation. General Henry H. Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, last week went out of his way to prepare the public for the death of some U.S. servicemen. "The truth is, war is a dirty thing," he said...
...action against Iraq. But the President's three foreign-policy salesmen nearly got the door slammed in their faces. Madeleine Albright's opening statement was interrupted by chants of "One, two, three, four, we don't want your racist war!" from a handful of protesters. Bill Cohen and Sandy Berger both got a scream or two of "Murderer!" One man angrily denounced the entire forum as "a staged media event...
...military strike would accomplish any final objective; others considered the U.S.' record on U.N. resolutions to be spotty at best. A veteran wanted to be assured that the U.S. would "not be half-assed" this time and finish the job, whatever it took. And from Cohen, Albright and Berger, the answers were not always convincing. Berger did manage a stirring final line: "Some things are worth fighting for." But if Saddam was watching from some Baghdad bunker, he was probably smiling...
...Tough Sell in Ohio Clinton's top Iraq trio ? Albright, Cohen and Berger ? try to get the administration's message out against a sea of hecklers. Full Story...
...chartered airline flights to take pilgrims from Miami to Havana. Might this be the start of a thaw? Well, one U.S. official noted that FIDEL CASTRO "is saying things he never said before," including asking a group of Protestants to pray for his country. National Security Adviser SANDY BERGER explained it this way: Washington "wants the Pope's visit to have a lasting effect." But no formal review of Cuba policy is under way, and no one expects John Paul to convert the communist graybeard to democracy and capitalism...