Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saving--or sacrificing--Japan's banks has become a litmus test. Obuchi's rescue plan envisions a "bridge bank" that would consolidate ailing institutions and protect healthy depositors without causing any outright failures. That means "the government will not cure the most crucial wounds," complains Hiroshi Kumagai, a leading member...
But although Dan Coats wasted no time in airing his suspicion "that we may have a president that is desperately seeking to hold onto his job," Clinton-haters from Newt Gingrich to Orrin Hatch have all put their patriotism above their suspicions -- at least publicly. "Sooner or later, terrorists will...
At the Atlanta Olympic Games, Irish swimmer MICHELLE SMITH DE BRUIN won three gold medals and became a national hero, brushing aside poolside murmurs that her sudden triumph at the advanced age of 26 might be drug aided. But last week, citing a surprise urine test, the international governing organization...
You portrayed a crisis in Sudan without adequately understanding the aid efforts of the U.S. government. Let there be no mistake: this famine was caused by protracted civil war and human-rights abuses by the Sudanese government, including support for scorched-earth militia raids in the famine zones, the bombing...
DIED. ALFRED SCHNITTKE, 63, iconoclastic Russian composer whose brooding, dissonant works reflected the private despair rather than the officially sanctioned glory of the Soviet Union; of a stroke; in Hamburg. Schnittke's works, termed "polystylistic," incorporated influences from diverse musical eras. Blacklisted by the Soviet Composer's Union for his...