Word: friday
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Yale Professor Antonio C. Lasaga was jailed again last Friday after prosecutors alleged he violated the terms of his federal bail bond...
...Friday, the government filed a successful motion to have Lasaga's bond revoked, claiming that he had obstructed justice and violated state law and the conditions of his bail bond by "surreptitiously" accessing computer files belonging to a potential witness in the federal case, according to Kari A. Dooley, senior litigation counsel for the US Attorney's Office. She said Lasaga did so through the Yale computer system...
...that has faded from the front pages to the news briefs - and the White House is suddenly under pressure over it. The New York Times reports Friday that a bipartisan group of senior senators and congressmen has written to President Clinton warning of the "drift" in U.S. policy on Iraq, and urging that Saddam Hussein be given a new deadline for compliance with arms-control requirements or face a new round of intense bombing. Although air strikes on Iraq hardly make the paper any longer, let alone the front page, the U.S. and Britain have fired 1,100 missiles...
...nation?s latest little war in the Caucasus -- with their political freedom. Although Moscow has admitted losing only 10 troops in a week of fighting and has vowed to drive Islamic insurgents out of Dagestan within two weeks, Russian reinforcements pouring into the region amid intensified fighting Friday suggest a longer and more brutal conflict. Back in Moscow, there?s widespread speculation that President Boris Yeltsin will use the Dagestan fighting as a pretext to declare a state of emergency -? which would allow him to cling to power by canceling December?s parliamentary elections and next summer?s presidential poll...
Yeltsin on Friday asked the Duma, the Russian parliament, not only to approve his appointee, intelligence chief Vladimir Putin, as prime minister, but also to approve a new law simplifying procedures for declaring a state of emergency. "The situation in the North Caucasus shows that this law is essential," a Yeltsin spokesman said. Putin can significantly boost his political prestige by swiftly resolving the Dagestan crisis. But if it drags out into another bloody war, it will ruin the election chances of Yeltsin?s anointed heir -? and that may, in turn, tempt the president to avoid the election altogether...