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...joint venture operated by Shell in Nigeria is responsible for 70 percent of the Nigerian state's revenues. The U.S. buys nearly half of Nigerian oil exports; even though this amounts to less than 10 percent of overall American oil imports. Instead of taking the obvious and most effective measure of an oil embargo on Nigeria, the U.S. and other world governments have preferred to launch futile paper arrows at the Nigerian government through "quiet diplomacy...
NATO Defense ministers unanimously endorsed the Bosnian "implementation force," known as IFOR, and dubbed the mission Operation Joint Endeavor. General George Joulwan, NATO's European commander, said most of the 60,000 heavily armed troops from 15 different countries would be in the Balkans within a month of the signing of the Balkan peace agreement in Paris, now scheduled for mid-December...
...administrator attended--a sorry absence, for they would have learned a lot from the student input. We hope that they will be fully informed about the meeting by Label, who serves on the joint student-faculty Core Review Committee, and that they take into account both the input from the forum and from the undergraduate requirements committee when deciding how to reform the Core...
During Waldholtz's disappearance, several other possible scams came to light. His wife said he may have had access to $2 million from their joint accounts. His family has gone to court in an attempt to find out what became of $600,000 that belonged to Joe's step-grandmother, 87, whose money Joe was supposed to be investing. As for the existence of a family trust, the elder Waldholtz, a Pittsburgh dentist, says it's news to him. That's bad news for Enid's father, who, according to Enid's statements to investigators, allegedly turned over $4 million...
Interventions in the gray areas the Pentagon calls "operations other than war" are hardest to explain. General John Shalikashvili, Powell's successor as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, is the man who directed the operation that provided refuge to the Kurds in Iraq, and he does not shrink from similar missions to bring succor to strife-torn countries. "We have a capacity like almost no one else," he says. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence Korb finds Shalikashvili much more willing to get involved in brush fires than his predecessor. "Powell wanted low-risk operations," Korb says. "But Shali...