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The Security Council condemned Iraq's action after a briefing by Butler on Thursday, and urged Annan to find a mutually acceptable solution to the breakdown. Iraq may not, this time, be able to count on its traditional Security Council supporters Russia, China and France to restrain U.S. pressure. The...
"No document--military order, after-action report, briefing paper or official military history--mentions pursuit of U.S. defectors as Tailwind's mission," Cohen said at a Pentagon briefing. "While sarin was stored in Okinawa in 1970, we found no evidence that sarin nerve gas was ever sent to or used...
Cohen declared the story "irresponsible" because it leveled such grave charges against the U.S. and its troops without the "overpowering evidence" such explosive allegations require. The Pentagon probe found that Robert Van Buskirk, a Tailwind platoon leader and a prime source for the original story, never mentioned sarin or defectors...
WASHINGTON: Few White Houses have given their spokesmen more to do than Bill Clinton's gave Mike McCurry. So it was perhaps a gesture of gratitude that when it came time to announce McCurry's not-so-surpising resignation as press secretary, President Clinton poked his head into McCurry's...
Wednesday, 6:15 p.m., Pristina airport. At every stop, Holbrooke holds impromptu press conferences to repeat the U.S. position to Kosovars: "We're trying to prevent this fighting from escalating into a general war," and autonomy, not independence, is the solution. His ability to work the media is legendary, but...