Word: hards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...steep. The Army has refused to buy the Osprey, citing its cost. Pentagon officials acknowledge that the Cobra's crash--and Bell's role in it--could complicate the Marines' efforts to keep buying V-22s because of doubts it might raise about Bell. "If the Marines come down hard on Bell, the whole program could be called into question," says Lawrence Korb, who oversaw Pentagon logistics and personnel during the Reagan Administration...
...Buchanan's bid. Last week, they got help with this idea when Ventura told the congressional paper The Hill that New York City mogul Donald Trump is "a serious candidate" for President on the Reform ticket. A Ventura ally admits the Governor is wary of Buchanan because of his hard-right stand on social issues and his anti-free-trade views, but, he says, "he doesn't feel that it is his role to recruit a presidential candidate to challenge Pat." As for Perot, friends say he does not plan to run and thinks Buchanan would be good for Reform...
...push hard for international peacekeepers. And it seems inevitable that American logistics expertise will gird the multinational force that descends on East Timor. The peacekeeping agreement came after a week of difficult diplomacy, led by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Annan publicly tried to persuade Indonesia to invite an international peacekeeping force. Privately, he pushed other nations to issue an ultimatum to Jakarta: permit such a force or it will be sent in uninvited. A failure to permit peacekeepers into a killing zone like East Timor, he warned Jakarta, was perilously close to a crime against humanity. When Habibie called...
...line has certainly worked as hard as it can to prepare for tomorrow's opener against Columbia. It will have to pass block effectively so the new starting quarterback, senior Brad Wilford, can feel more comfortable...
...Western peacekeeping force has certified that the KLA handed over all weapons required by previous agreements, observers believe the transition is unlikely to stop violence in the province. Many of the weapons handed over were old and not particularly useful, and it has been anticipated that KLA hard-liners ? some of whom have been involved in systematic mortar attacks on Serb villages ? may choose to simply hide their arms and continue their independence war from the underground...