Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bodyguards can be forced to become hostile witnesses, Presidents may end up sometimes trying to shake them, with unhappy results for presidential safety. So Fox left the courthouse last week without being questioned, because Starr's prosecutors were negotiating with officials of the Justice and Treasury departments over ground rules for such a session. Under an agreement reached on Friday, Starr will be permitted to pursue "limited questioning" of Fox, so long as the "protective techniques and procedures of the Secret Service are not disclosed." But the two sides are still bargaining over how to interrogate other agents, including...
...when Jones demanded a full apology. By the time the Lewinsky story broke, disclosing an alleged pattern of exploitive sexual behavior by the President, the price tag had jumped to more than $2 million, a figure too embarrassing for the White House to entertain. But the legal and perceptual ground has shifted since then, mostly when Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled last month that the whole Lewinsky saga could not be admitted in the Jones case...
...planes until Iraq's antiaircraft-missile batteries are destroyed. That assignment is in the hands of electronic-warfare planes like the Air Force's EF-111 Ravens and F-16CJs and the Navy's EA-6B Prowlers, which will fly in behind the F-117s. Their jammers blank out ground-based radar and computer screens, and some of them let fly with HARM missiles, which home in on and destroy radar installations, leaving antiaircraft missiles at the site blind and useless...
...flung air battle will be directed by Air Force E-3 AWACS and Navy E-2 Hawkeye planes, the controllers aboard them squinting at radar screens tracking friendly and enemy planes in all directions. They will also be receiving up-to-the-minute data on Iraqi positions on the ground from the Navy's ES-3A Shadow jet, hovering just south of the Iraqi border, which will electronically vacuum up radio transmissions from Saddam's forces. The Shadow squadron's motto: In God We Trust--All Others We Monitor...
...this wasn't the War Room of the White House. It was the Park Plaza Hotel--ground zero for the 13th annual Harvard Model Congress (HMC), which drew 1,500 high school students from across the nation for its opening ceremonies yesterday...