Word: cleaning
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...Perot Parade. Behind the scenes at the United We Stand convention in Dallas, where politicians from both parties courted independent voters. Photos by Shelly Katz for TIME.In two parts:Section 1(148K) andSection 2(140K). Acrobat PDF format.Clickhereto download free Acrobat PDF Reader.IS SADDAM COMING CLEAN...
...monitors, whose job is to search out and police the destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. According to this line, the general, who in the first place had presided over the stockpiling of Iraq's most dangerous arsenals, argued that the sooner the regime comes clean, the quicker the country might resume oil exports and normal economic life. At bottom, though, the quarrel seems to have been over spoils: black-market profits, cuts of foreign business deals and all the other perks flowing from high rank in a dictatorship. Said Phebe Marr, an Iraq expert at Washington...
...three sides by low mountains, Hiroshima was threaded by seven tributaries of the Ota River--watery obstacles to the spread of fires--emptying into Hiroshima Bay on the Inland Sea. On this Monday morning, some 8,900 schoolchildren had been ordered to increase Hiroshima's advantage by helping clean and widen streets...
...Subarus full of Easterners and Range Rovers stuffed with Californians started trekking to the Rocky Mountain states. The refugees were tired of big-city life, traffic jams, crime and shopping malls, so they moved to a new mecca, stretching from Montana to New Mexico, where the air was clean and the water was clear. It was paradise, except for the fact that it needed more strip malls, so those were promptly built. And pretty soon some of the friends and relatives of the settlers moved in, which meant a few more strip malls were required, not to mention houses...
There are signs that when it wants to, the CIA can clean house. Fernando Botero, the defense minister of Colombia, recalls a visit four months ago by agency officials who explained that they could no longer do business indiscriminately with the Colombian military, some of whose officers have death-squad links. From now on, "liaison" would occur only with officers found to be free of corruption and human-rights violations. Despite patriotic grumbling within his government, Botero agreed, and the result has pleased him. The agency drew closer to the Colombian National Police, one of the government's cleaner outfits...