Word: cabineteer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During a question-and-answer session, Forbes repeatedly bashed the size of the federal government, pledging to abolish several cabinet agencies...
That may help explain why he was dispatched to the U.S. with such haste. The Mexicans say they expelled him because they feared they could not prevent him from running his business while awaiting trial. But there is also the issue of the judges, police officials and possibly even Cabinet members who may have been accepting his bribes. In Mexico the pressure to suppress Garcia Abrego's information about corruption could be overwhelming, so it is more likely to come out in a U.S. court. The expulsion may thus be a reflection of Zedillo's commitment to rooting out corruption...
Bowing to hard-line critics of his government's economic reforms, Russian President Boris Yeltsin accepted the resignation of Anatoly Chubais, the chief strategist of that restructuring effort and the last prominent liberal in Yeltsin's Cabinet...
...Drafted at the outbreak of World War II, he was imprisoned by the Germans in 1940. He escaped, co-founding a Resistance group with a network of ex-prisoners in 1943. After the liberation, he was elected to the National Assembly, and between 1947 and 1957 he held 11 Cabinet positions. But with Charles de Gaulle's ascension to the leadership of France, Mitterrand began a quarter-century in the opposition. Flanked by the Gaullists and the Communists, he forged the French Socialist Party from the motley fragments of the non-Communist left. In 1981 he finally captured the presidency...
...loaded with Russians in the Turkish Black Sea port of Trabzon and taking 30 Russians hostage in their capital, Grozny, even as hostage-takers under withering Russian assault in Pervomayskaya, Dagestan, vowed to fight to the death. Chechens escalated the conflict as Russian President Boris Yeltsin shook up his cabinet, replacing Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Filatov, one of the last remaining liberals in his administration, with hawk Nikolai Yegorov. The developments limn the increasingly desperate straits of both the Chechen separatists and Russian president Boris Yeltsin. For Yeltsin, says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "Chechnya has been a disaster since...