Word: charter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that has allowed Cubans to bypass the asylum process, the President announced on Friday that refugees trying to make it to the U.S. will now face indefinite detention while their cases are reviewed by immigration officials. By Saturday Clinton had imposed other stringencies on Cuba, including new limits on charter flights and an increase in anti-Castro radio broadcasts. Most important, Clinton pledged to cut off cash transfers from Cuban Americans to their relatives on the island -- gifts that have been estimated to total $500 million a year...
...Hanson called the RTC's Kulka at home the next day with Nussbaum's request. Kulka brushed her off, telling Hanson that while Nussbaum was correct about the charter, Fiske didn't want any part of the civil case...
...hands of special prosecutor Fiske, who had been chosen two weeks earlier by Reno to launch the criminal inquiry into Whitewater? If so, Nussbaum told Hanson, she might want to inform Altman, still fully in charge of the Madison case, that such a transfer was possible under Fiske's charter. (Under oath, Nussbaum recalled suggesting this to Hanson, but insisted that he did so to help Altman get out of his conflict-of-interest problems...
...tribute to this country's multinational heritage. Not many people were rooting for Romania in the U.S.'s last game--say five percent of a packed stadium--but then again, the U.S. is the home team. Even when thousands of Argentinians tramp out to the stadium from their charter flights at the airport, they bring millions of tourist dollars that the economy sorely needs. These Argentinians are the same ones who have a nasty habit of throwing little pieces of paper all over the playing field. It's somehow supposed to simulate the atmosphere at their stadium back home...
...jangling guitars, stomping drums and Hynde's voice -- soft one moment, steely the next -- it is assured, bare-knuckle rock 'n' roll. Part of the credit goes to the sturdy rhythm work of returning drummer Martin Chambers, an original Pretender who left the band in 1986 (the other two charter bandmates, James Honeyman Scott and Pete Farndon, died of drug overdoses...