Word: dees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from senior Haitian military officers would have sacrificed their capo, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, if the U.S. dropped demands for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide--and eased a trade embargo that's only now beginning to squeeze the ruling elite. But today, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said the U.S. was still pushing for a United Nations resolution to "remove the dictators by any means necessary." Meanwhile, in Port-au-Prince, an army-backed effort to whip up opposition to possible U.S. intervention flopped when a Roman Catholic bishop barred a priest from conducting...
...lift the White House -- supported arms embargo against Bosnia. Senate minority leader Bob Dole, backed by most Republicans and some Democrats, went after the Clinton policy in an effort to give the besieged Bosnians more firepower to fend off the better armed Serbs. White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers welcomed the vote as a confirmation of the President's Bosnia stance -- a policy, BTW, that candidate Clinton had railed against. Dole said he'd try it again.parpar
...people with whom I've come into contact this semester, though, from the guys working the graveyard shift at Store 24, to the student who complained about the lack of backgammon coverage (you know who are), one man has touched me more than any: David Allen Boucher, the dee-jay on 106.7's "Bedtime Magic" radio program...
...among them an easygoing Texan (Gary Sinise), a pregnant young woman from Maine (Molly Ringwald), a rock singer (Adam Storke) and an angelic deaf-mute (Rob Lowe). The few people left are mystically drawn into two camps: one led by a messiah- like black woman (Ruby Dee), the other by a satanic "dark man" (a leonine Jamey Sheridan...
...President's thought process," says Moore. It is Stephanopoulos who underlines Clinton's press summaries every morning. And it is he who serves as the President's "policy body man," hovering near him throughout the day, providing continuity and calculating each issue's relative importance. Says press secretary Dee Dee Meyers: "He's the place where all things come together. He is the one person, more than ((chief of staff)) Mack McLarty or ((presidential counselor David)) Gergen, who doesn't lose the forest for the trees." Although Clinton does not see Stephanopoulos as a peer -- "he's not an alter...