Word: deale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...South, wrote Faulkner, the past isn't dead; it's not even past. That must have seemed all too true when Byrd was buried last June--on the black side of the Jasper City Cemetery, still segregated in 1998. But the truth is that Jasper has progressed a great deal since pre-civil rights days, and Byrd's killing has moved things along even further. Shortly before jury selection, 75 blacks and whites met at the cemetery to cut down the wrought-iron fence that separated the two races even in death. "Give us the power and the strength through...
...promise in theory from the ethnic Albanians to subscribe to the NATO plan a couple of weeks down the road. What Belgrade got was a delicious reprieve from American dictates and the missiles that NATO had threatened to launch if Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic failed to accept the deal. The whole business will have to be gone over again when the talks resume on March...
...Knew You," but it should have read "Margaret, We Hardly Knew You." I now realize that no one could have convinced Carlson that Clinton was guilty of anything other than being an outstanding President. She finds fault with all Republicans when she should praise them. They deserve a great deal of credit for presenting the impeachment evidence and showing up the President for what he was, a liar. ROLAND PETERS Lynchburg...
...emergence of Surroi as a rational center to the deal has been a surprise. As recently as last October, Surroi, the publisher of Kosovo's largest Albanian-language newspaper, was described by State Department emissaries as "vicious" and "unrealistic." Says a relieved U.S. official: "He turns out to have real leadership qualities and real political courage." Surroi, a stocky, square-jawed intellectual who smokes a pipe and talks in a gravelly monotone, is the son of a former ambassador from Yugoslavia to Mexico and Spain. His global upbringing gave him fluency in Spanish and English in addition to his native...
...deal Surroi helped broker in France looks good on the surface for the Kosovars. After a year of fighting, they would be free of Yugoslav repression. The proposed self-rule would include control over government finances, locally maintained police forces, the removal of Serb troops and the presence of 28,000 NATO troops to ensure stability. Kosovars would feel as if they had their own nation, but they would remain a part of Yugoslavia...