Word: jointed
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Speaking before a joint session of Congress this morning, South Korean President Kim Young Sam paid tribute to Americans who gave their lives during the Korean War. "On behalf of the Korean people, I would like to take this opportunity to pay my respects to the memory of those young Americans who sacrificed their lives onKorea's battlefront," he said. Some 27 members of Congress are Korean War veterans. The South Korean leader singled out New York Democrat Charles Rangel by name. Pledging to pursue Korean unification, Kim noted that vigorous Asia-Pacific economic growth could only be maintained...
...MAGAW MAY BE RUNNING OUT of time. The bureau faces a long hot summer of scrutiny, starting this week when the House subcommittees on crime and national security begin a joint eight-day hearing on ATF and FBI actions at Waco. The crime subcommittee plans two more hearings after the August congressional recess to examine other alleged ATF abuses and the enforcement of firearms laws in general. In short, congressional Republicans aim to ask whether the bureau should be allowed to survive. One of this week's inquisitors will be Representative Bob Barr of Georgia, an N.R.A. member who heads...
When Cornell and fellow physicists at the JILA laboratory (formerly the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) in Boulder, Colorado, announced their achievement in Science last week, their colleagues around the world were quick to cheer. "The term Holy Grail seems quite appropriate, given the singular importance of this discovery," wrote Oxford physicist Keith Burnett in a commentary that accompanied the report...
...Pentagon has no enthusiasm for the pullout, and officials hope the desperate consequences it would have for civilians will inhibit politicians from ever ordering the exit. "The plan is limited to the withdrawal of unprofor forces," says General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It does not provide for humanitarian or refugee support either during or after the withdrawal operation...
Milosevic: All my speeches up to '89 were published in my book. You can see that there was no nationalism in those speeches. We were explaining why we think it is good to preserve Yugoslavia for all Serbs, all Croats, all Muslims and all Slovenians as our joint country. Nothing else...