Word: demanding
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...Clinton's decision to grant a visa in May for a private visit by Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, which "provoked a diplomatic crisis between the two countries that Harry Wu's detention only intensified." Sectretary of State Warren Christopher told Fischer that the latest message from China -- a demand that Washington reaffirm the Nixon policy and ban further official Taiwanese visits -- was a message of possible reconciliation...
...rejection of numerical targets" for Japanese purchases of American cars and parts. His boss, miti Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, may have strengthened his already bright chances for becoming Japan's next Prime Minister: he was being hailed as a hero precisely for having got Kantor to drop a U.S. demand for such targets...
...attacked Dutch peacekeepers outside the Bosnian "safe area" of Srebrenica,Bosnian Serb forceshalted their advance toward Dutch lines on the southern edge of town. Fighting between Serb and government forces intensified elsewhere around the city, as Serb forces reportedly set fire to homes in outlying areas. Despite a U.N. demand that they be released, the Serbian army continued to hold 30 Dutch soldiers hostage as insurance againstNATO bombings...
Smith Corona Corp., the last American company to manufacture typewriters, has filed for bankruptcy. The firm says personal computers have eroded demand for its products. Is White-Out next...
That sounds easier than it probably is. Pornography is powerful stuff, and as long as there is demand for it, there will always be a supply. Better software tools may help check the worst abuses, but there will never be a switch that will cut it off entirely--not without destroying the unbridled expression that is the source of the Internet's (and democracy's) greatest strength. The hard truth, says John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the EFF and father of three young daughters, is that the burden ultimately falls where it always has: on the parents...