Word: embarrassments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aristide asked the FBI to investigate the assassination of ultranationalist Mireille Durocher Bertin. A Haitian government source today told TIME contributor Bernard Diederich that Aristide had advance warning of the killing, and offered Bertin protection. Haitian officials insist that the opposition killed one of its own in order to embarrass Aristide and Clinton...
...that his decision in the late 1980s to let a young Filipino move to the U.S. with Carns' family may have violated labor and immigration laws. Worse, said the general, his family had had a falling out with the young man, who is making unspecified accusations that might embarrass Carns and the Administration if they come to light. President Clinton immediately turned to Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch--who has previously turned down the CIA directorship--to become the reluctant new nominee...
...says Siff, "we're a reminder of what opera used to be. You don't see the grand manner onstage anymore -- no one will embarrass themselves. Which is too bad, because if opera isn't over the top, what...
...most important thing for us was that Robin and I were free to make our own rules," wrote Lehrer in his book A Bus of My Own. "We would not beat up on our guests or embarrass them." The two anchors forged a complementary partnership -- MacNeil with his clipped, analytical style, Lehrer with his folksy Texas drawl -- but there are important differences. Says longtime NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Lehrer is like a "Marine drill sergeant"; MacNeil is like a "symphony conductor...
...keeping negotiations going despite violence between the parties. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher joined in pressuring Arafat, not only in the name of peace but for the sake of an American life. Arafat was motivated himself by a sense that the hostage taking was intended by Hamas to embarrass...