Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prosperous Baghdad-based businessman whom Rashid had coerced, by blackmailing Awad's business, to blow up Geneva's Noga Hilton. The story sounded farfetched, but when Swiss police went to the Noga Hilton, they found a bomb-rigged suitcase in Awad's room. As Awad volunteered more detail about Rashid's modus operandi, U.S. officials began to detect a link between the bomb in Awad's suitcase and the one that had blown a hole in the Pan Am jet three weeks earlier. But U.S. policy did not yet support a pursuit of Rashid. So Awad stayed where...
Horrific as the pictures are, observers for the U.N. and the Organization of American States returned from Gonaives last week with even grimmer detail. In the predawn hours of April 22, they reported, soldiers and paramilitary gunmen surrounded Raboteau, a slum where Aristide support runs strong, and shot down men, women and children as they fled toward the sea and their fishing boats. Because many bodies were lost at sea, the observers could not give an exact death toll, but witnesses claimed that at least 28 people had died. Soldiers hastily buried some victims in shallow graves that were soon...
...most debilitating effect of our U.N. subordination is neither tactical nor strategic. It is philosophical. One ends up missing the point of foreign policy. When President Clinton held his April 20 press conference on Bosnia, he went into extraordinary detail about the different levels of U.N. authorization for the use of air power. There is "no-fly zone" authority. There is "close air support," which requires a U.N. request for every bombing run. And there is the Sarajevo model, open-ended authority to bomb a predefined exclusion zone...
...What we're trying to do is be the middle-man,to talk about what's going on so that everybodycan understand it but without any loss of detail,"Kim says...
...furiously scribbling notes on each race, to the last detail. Fortyeight hours before, I was wondering if I would even know what to write...