Word: friday
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...Chief weapons inspector Richard Butler on Friday appeared to be fighting for his job as he confronted U.S. officials over the revelations that Washington had used UNSCOM cover to spy on Iraq. His efforts will likely be in vain, and he may bail even before his contract expires in June. The leading contender to replace him is Argentine diplomat Emilio Cardenas, who will be kept on a tight leash by the Security Council and Kofi Annan. Meanwhile, there?s no sign of an end to the battle of the ?no-fly? zones. As Saddam works to drum up Arab support...
...Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela have indeed resolved the Lockerbie deadlock, Washington faces a problem -- how to contain Muammar Ghaddafi. The British and South African leaders on Friday expressed confidence that a discreet South African diplomatic mission would coax Ghaddafi into surrendering for trial two Libyan intelligence agents accused of bombing Pan Am flight 103 -- which would end 10 years of sanctions. ?Ghaddafi?s refusal to cooperate gave the U.S. a reason to keep Libya boxed in,? says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. ?Those sanctions proved to be a critical factor in neutralizing one of the world?s most dangerous...
...together in front of a bank of microphones, Majority Leader Trent Lott and his Democratic counterpart, Tom Daschle, took turns assuring reporters they were doing their best to bring bipartisanship back from the brink in time for the trial. Both men were optimistic about a full Senate get-together Friday morning, but the sticking point still stuck -- Daschle held firm to his caucus's stand against witnesses, while Lott refused to rule them out. The "98 other senators" that Lott referred to so ominously will have a lot to talk about...
...check: the Crimson lost its lastnon-conference game at Navy Monday night, 75-71.As Harvard gets ready to return to Ivy League playat Cornell on Friday, it can expect solidperimeter play from its shooters and its pointsguard...
...with Lewinsky. The spectacle of House Republicans applauding one adulterer just before condemning another was not calculated to help them take the high ground. "The word that comes to mind is hypocrite," said Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a California Democrat. That was the setting for the impeachment debate that began Friday morning. Ray LaHood, the Illinois Congressman chosen by Livingston to preside over the debate, felt compelled to open with the warning to House members that they could not make personally disparaging remarks. For the most part, the debate never veered into that territory, though little was said that was likely...