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...enforcing the truce, but two other rebel groups continue to fight in the west of the country. CHECHNYA Mandate Denied Russia refused to extend the mandate of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission after the failure of last-minute talks to determine the body's exact role in the breakaway republic. Moscow had insisted that the OSCE limit itself to providing humanitarian aid, but the 55-nation body wanted to continue monitoring human rights. The OSCE was the last international organization to maintain a permanent presence in Chechnya. PERSIAN GULF Military Might The U.S. accelerated...
Behind the wheel of the family's beige Windstar minivan, Rowley is the first to admit, she is an aggressive driver, passing slower-moving cars on a two-lane highway at every chance. It's hard to tell her exact speed, since the speedometer is broken. The needle swings between 70 and 100 m.p.h., even when she's braking. Every now and then, Rowley pounds the dashboard above the gauges. "This is what Ross does," she says with a shrug...
...didn't.") Mueller also named Pasquale D'Amuro, the counterterrorism chief in the FBI's New York City office before Sept. 11, to the bureau's top counterterrorism post--dismaying critics who say that last year's intelligence lapses demanded a management shake-up. "They have basically promoted the exact same people who have presided over the ... failure," says a former Justice Department official, "and those individuals took the same thinking with them...
...think the exact words that went through my head were, ‘We’re right there. We’re there,’” Merchant said about his mindset at the time. “[Norman’s three] is the kind of shot you have to have in a game like this...
...good fortune of seeing Governor Thurmond at a whistle stop in northern Kentucky last month, and I inquired as to the specific situations of both Robinson and the Dodgers, as well as the possibility of future South Asian scribes. He was inimical to both. His exact words were unclear, obscured by the constant spitting and chawing, but I got the sense of it. Thurmond, if elected President, would send in federal troops to Ebbets Field to prevent Robinson or any future blacks from participating in the Great American tradition...