Word: draft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name of Finnish President Ahtisaari as Chernomyrdin's likely partner. And as everyone stood to leave, Gore told Chernomyrdin that there was something else he should have. He handed the Russian a manila envelope containing a reminder of the most fundamental reason why both countries needed to succeed--a draft of a yet unreleased State Department report, prepared overnight, laying out the extent of the ethnic cleansing that was taking place in Kosovo...
...Quarterback Matt Rader threw for 260 yards and two touchdowns, and tailback Jim Finn--the last player taken in the 1999 NFL Draft--ran for 106 yards and three scores...
...draft U.N. resolution setting out the Kosovo peace process was agreed to in negotiations among the G8 nations, but disagreements between Russia and the West resulted in a number of questions ?- such as the command and composition of the peacekeeping force -? being left open. Such issues, along with the tortuous negotiations over an implementation agreement, signal the conflicts to come. "Even as the deal is being implemented, Belgrade will refer to the letter of the resolution in order to challenge NATO?s interpretations," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "For example, they?re claiming the right to screen...
...issues and events that affected the Class of 1974 ran the gamut. Political issues like the Vietnam War and the draft were at the forefront, but Harvard students were also tackling the problems of diversity on campus and a rapidly changing relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe...
Leonard identifies the military draft as an issue that drove protestors earlier in the decade, but by his senior year, he said, "there wasn't any kind of defining issue that could galvanize in the same...