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...battlefield of Verdun, France. They wandered the fields, scene of ghastly sacrifice, with its solemn tombs for soldiers from each country, and then slipped into the ossuary. But there were private stairs leading down to a basement, walled off by glass windows that had been painted black to hide what was inside. The paint had peeled, so they decided to take a peek...
...father was a combat-hardened Army lieutenant colonel whose soldiers called him "Stoneface," who spoke three languages and served as an intelligence officer, but was passed over for full colonel twice because he didn't hide his contempt for incompetent superiors. His mother was the gentle buddy who sometimes let her kids stay home from school just to be with mom, but would hide them in the closet at lunchtime when Bob came home so he wouldn't get angry. Newt never openly challenged his father's strict rules. He just ignored them...
...were cooking when the phone rang. When they told me, I felt I had aged 50 years." She was then 22. The Hague tribunal charges that Croat militia forces stormed the village of Ahmici, near Vitez, killing everyone on the streets, throwing grenades into cellars where villagers tried to hide, then burning bodies and houses and shelling mosques into rubble. The Croats claim they were responding to massacres by Muslims...
...attorney-client privilege and raising the possibility that he might resort to executive privilege if necessary. "From a public relations standpoint, this is bad," says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "because it raises the question in people's minds of why Clinton would block this if he has nothing to hide." Senate Whitewater Committee Chairman Alfonse D'Amato urged the President to reconsider, and said that the public has the right to know what went on in a November 5, 1993, meeting between Kennedy, three other White House aides and three personal lawyers for the Clintons. "The real question...
Chirac: Apart from certain superficial crises, relations have always been excellent, and will remain so because it is in the nature of things. You can't change two centuries of history. [But] I will not hide the fact that I am very worried about the isolationism of the current American Congress. Concerning aid to developing countries, for example, the European Union, with a gdp roughly equivalent to America's, spends some $31 billion a year and the U.S. $9 billion. I think that the one who pays is the one who has the political power in the final analysis...