Word: effort
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...DELHI: Testing nuclear weapons may have, ironically, brought India and Pakistan closer together. "They're both facing sanctions, which are beginning to hurt," says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk, "and the only way to get sanctions lifted is by making some kind of effort toward nonproliferation and de-escalating nuclear tension." Today India announced that peace talks with Pakistan -- stalled since last year -- would resume on June 22, even as tensions continued over terrorist attacks in Pakistan and that country's missile development program...
...Democrats are using an old gambit that couldn't save John McCain's last effort -- campaign finance reform -- but may well work this time around: threatening to attach the tobacco bill as an amendment to every piece of legislation that Lott touches. "The Republicans are under some pressure to keep the bill alive because they're in charge," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "They don't want to be a do-nothing Congress, and they don't want to get tagged with a pro-tobacco label." So they budged, and both Daschle and the White House seem...
...didn't want to end up unhappy like her overwhelmed mother: married to a charming, philandering journalist who "didn't even take the cigarette out of his mouth" to bestow a kiss, who forgot the name of the youngest of his nine children, who "dumbly refused the ordinary effort of being a father." So she ended up unhappy in a different way, having to look away when she sees "small children, hopping around...too beautiful to bear...
DIED. TELFORD TAYLOR, 90, formidable Nuremberg prosecutor who held that "the laws of war are not a one-way street"; in New York City. An ardent New Dealer, Taylor joined the war effort in 1942 and worked on Nazi codes. Though at the hub of military intelligence, he learned of the Holocaust only as an assistant prosecutor at the first Nuremberg trial. He was chair of the next 12 trials, and his clarity and eloquence (he called Nazi Germany "an infernal combination of a lunatic asylum and a charnel house") led to 142 convictions. Later, as a lawyer...
...International Monetary Fund concluded, or pretended to conclude, that Yeltsin's deficit-fighting plans sounded good enough for it to hand over a delayed installment of $670 million, part of a $10 billion loan package. While the IMF denies it is planning a big, new rescue effort, many financial analysts say that is what it will take to restore confidence. With that in mind, Anatoli Chubais, a former Deputy Prime Minister, arrived in Washington Friday on an emergency mission to talk with the U.S. Treasury, the IMF and the World Bank...