Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steele's affidavit undermines Willey's testimony, it becomes just one more reason the White House may be wanting a trial and the Jones camp may be looking for a deal. At this point, some aides argue, Clinton has little more to lose; the damage to his reputation has been done, and if the jury rules against him, he can blame the poisonous atmosphere around Kenneth Starr's investigation. If he were to win, he could spin the victory into a vindication against all accusations against...
...hantavirus, the health officials were busy staring down a far more likely global disaster and produced a closely held Pandemic Planning Document. In the course of their meetings, the planners are said to have wrestled with such issues as what to do if the President dies and how to deal with masses of dead or severely ill citizens, considerations reminiscent of civil-defense planning for nuclear war. The planners are so certain that another worldwide epidemic will occur that they refer to the present as the "interpandemic period...
BAGHDAD: It?s already being called the Baghdad Accord, but there?s no word yet on whether the deal inked Monday by Kofi Annan and Tariq Aziz will bring closure to the standoff over weapons inspectors. Has the secretary general averted war? ?I hope so. I think I have,? Annan told CNN. The devil is in the details, of course, and we won?t see those until Tuesday?s Security Council meeting. But all signs point to a deal that brings Iraq in line with U.N. resolutions. ?It is in conformity in terms of spirit and in terms of intent...
...Naturally, the U.S. remains skeptical. National Security Advisor Sandy Berger had just three words: ?Wait and see.? But Annan, a wily diplomat who was Washington?s pick for the top job, is unlikely to disappoint. He knows a deal that ties UNSCOM?s hands is not worth coming back to New York with. His spokesman Fred Eckhard indicated that one of the major hurdles in previous Iraqi offers -- time limits on weapons inspections -- was not present in this deal. So how did Annan do it? The so-called ?white glove? solution, diplomats accompanying inspectors, is one possibility, but that...
...with the Iraq deal, Washington is "cautiously optimistic" over reports that Indonesia has backed down from defying the International Monetary Fundover the "currency board" issue -- but it wants details. "The IMF is waiting to discern exactly what Suharto plans to do," says TIME business correspondent Bruce Van Voorst. "There's a degree of optimism that what could have been the worst confrontation between the IMF and a beneficiary country may have been avoided...