Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real test of the agreement will come the next time NATO troops confront armed Albanian irregulars. KFOR commander General Sir Michael Jackson has warned that anyone contravening the ban on weapons in the territory will be dealt with harshly. Reining in militant ethnic-Albanian nationalists is only half of NATO?s problem. Yugoslavia and Russia complain that NATO has failed to honor its agreement to allow a small number of Serb forces back into Kosovo to police borders and guard sensitive sites, and alliance commanders fear that Belgrade may have decided to take matters into its own hands: NATO reported...
Aristide thanked Harvard for its defense of Haitian refugees. The University has helped confront the Clinton Administration's decision to continue forced repatriation of refugees. The administration justifies its polices by saying that the refugees are escaping economic hardship in Haiti, and not political oppression...
...there is pressure on Congress to confront the issue, and it is coming from an unexpected quarter: the business community. While commercial interests joined forces to block the Kyoto treaty in the Senate two years ago, the opposition has since splintered. Even such big oil companies as BP Amoco concede that global warming demands a serious response. Just two weeks ago, a subgroup of FORTUNE 500 companies known as the Business Roundtable called on government to encourage the development of advanced technologies to "address concerns about climate change." And when he visited Washington recently, Ford Motor chairman Bill Ford said...
...There was no due process afforded in terms of having a meaningful hearing where a person has the opportunity to confront their accusers," he said. "There were no witnesses and no documentary evidence was introduced...
...half hour. At Storyteller, in the small town of Thirsk in north Yorkshire, a staggering 56 were snapped up that first afternoon--"and we don't usually sell books in hardback at all," says store owner Judy Turner, who has taken to selling the book at cost rather than confront the "droopy faces" of those who cannot afford the $17 cover price. Less than two weeks after its release in Britain, the book has gone through 10 printings and sold 270,000 copies, outstripping its nearest competitor, Thomas Harris' Hannibal. "I haven't seen anything quite like this," says Caroline...