Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Irish European Union Commissioner Padraig Flynn, who has spent the last month battling allegations of campaign finance improprieties, will speak today at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies...
...last month it seemed that Washington was going to do just that. The unarmed peace monitors who had been sent to the province watched helplessly as the slaughter continued. Albright, nervous about the quickly deteriorating truce, persuaded President Clinton and Defense Secretary William Cohen to deploy peacekeepers, then cajoled European foreign ministers into giving Milosevic a two-week deadline to accept a peace agreement or face NATO bombing. On a trip to Moscow in January, she laid out the U.S. plan to Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov during intermissions at a performance of La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theater...
...next two weeks keeping half a dozen trains moving in a complex operation of diplomatic logistics. She began each day with a 7 a.m. phone call to U.S. ambassador Christopher Hill, who was paving the way for the peace talks. That was followed by phone calls to nervous European foreign ministers, Ivanov and U.S. Congressmen--all to keep everyone from wavering on air attacks if Milosevic reneges. Albright has learned from past failures that "she has to be on top of each train to make sure they all end up in the same place," says an aide...
...that point Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos decided to extend "humanitarian assistance" to Ocalan. As a historic foe of Turkey, Greece had long supported the Kurdish cause, but shied away from giving the guerrilla leader refugee status. Pangalos hoped to muster a European Union-wide agreement to grant him political asylum. Ocalan and two aides were spirited to Athens on Jan. 29. Once there, Greece offered Ocalan only a bleak choice of destinations: Algeria, Morocco, Tunis or Libya. "We refused," fumes a Greek close to Ocalan. "What did they think Ocalan was, a cargo of contraband cigarettes...
Wherever DiCaprio now goes, at least one or two bodyguards are no more than an arm's length away. Groups of Asian teenage girls shadow his every move; a blond European stalker in hot pants even showed up uninvited at his hotel-room door. And unlike the controversies during the making of Titanic, where the heat was on director James Cameron for a runaway budget, this time around DiCaprio finds himself in the crossfire of a hostile debate over environmental problems allegedly caused by the filming of his new movie, The Beach...