Word: hurd
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That number "is not extraordinary, but it is high," said Department Administrator Amanda W. Hurd. "There is a trend toward hiring more junior faculty in the department...
Only a glint of thought to its founder, Ted Turner, a dozen years ago, CNN is now the world's most widely heeded news organization. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd insists on staying only at hotels that carry the network. Iraqi ministers Tariq Aziz and Nizar Hamdoon would not so much as lower the volume of the nonstop CNN in the background while granting interviews to John Wallach, foreign affairs editor of the Hearst newspapers' Washington bureau -- not even, Wallach says, for the network's Hollywood Minute. When the name of his country was inadvertently omitted from a news quiz...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl called the compromise "a great victory for German foreign policy." At the least, it spared the E.C. from an embarrassing public split, but there will undoubtedly be unpleasant repercussions for some time to come. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, evoking World War I, reminded the House of Commons that "there is a tradition of the main states of Western Europe splitting in rivalry on these Balkan questions, and this all ending up on the battlefield. I don't think that tradition is a good one." One Conservative M.P. even complained about "the overmighty...
...Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week proposed the creation of an all-European army, starting with a small Franco-German brigade that is already in existence and eventually comprising troops from all the nine nations in the Western European Union. Staunch Atlanticists initially opposed the idea: British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd called it an unnecessary "duplication" of NATO. But others, including the U.S. -- which is not a member of the WEU and thus has the most influence to lose -- were more restrained. Some diplomats suggested that a Euroarmy could play a role in future gulf-style conflicts, as long...
Washington still insisted late last week that it was sticking by the E.C.'s leadership in exploring peace options. But Britain remained opposed to sending peacekeepers without a peace to keep. Unless all of Yugoslavia's factions invite such a force, said British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, an "open- ended commitment" is doomed. Hurd argued for economic sanctions, perhaps an oil embargo...