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...deals message, however, became muddled the next day when a senior Albright aide told reporters that the U.S. was prepared to offer "a little carrot" to Iraq and allow it to sell more oil internationally to buy food and medicine. A furious Clinton ordered senior aides to disavow the comment. "There should be no trading for any carrots in order to get [Saddam's] compliance," said Defense Secretary William Cohen...
...Republic. He is seeking the release of another member, Jo Ann Canady Turner, and demands that a referendum be held to decide whether Texas should become an independent republic. Spokesmen for two groups each claiming to be the official government of the Republic of Texas have been quick to disavow McLaren, who was kicked out of any official capacity in both groups months ago over growing concern about what they say was McLaren's increasing advocacy of violence to achieve their aim of a sovereign Texas. While a few federal agents have joined local and state law enforcement officials, they...
...want to be with someone I have no feelings with"; "so far I haven't found that person." Most females see their virginity as good, while most males view it as an embarrassment and concoct elaborate tales to hide it. We have to ask ourselves why we disavow the possibility of "male virginity...
...author of the Peninsula piece and those who tacked up the swastika. The active members of Peninsula need to muster the courage to admit to themselves and the campus just how small and isolated their organization is, and their less-active members need to have the courage to either disavow themselves entirely or else take responsibility for the actions of their colleagues. By the same token, those who disagree with Peninsula must enter the discourse in a constructive manner and not hide behind anonymous symbols. If everyone involved had acted properly and responsibly, we wouldn't have seen a useless...
There's more Finkel-think to come. D'Amato's committee is financing an "independent expenditure" campaign that, by virtue of being technically unaffiliated, can avoid spending limits while pummeling Democrats with ads g.o.p. candidates can later disavow. Finkelstein has played this game for years. In 1986 a federal court ruled that his National Conservative Political Action Committee violated election laws because he worked for both a Senate candidate and the supposedly independent ncpac. The beauty of this arrangement, his late ncpac colleague Terry Dolan once explained, is that "a group like ours could lie through its teeth...