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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three days later, the groundwork for Gingrich's Air Force One pique was laid when the Speaker was told by Pat Griffin, the President's top lobbyist, that Clinton would discuss budget issues on the return flight from Israel. So on Nov. 5, Gingrich spent more than four hours huddled with advisers at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, preparing one-page statements for use during the in-flight negotiating session. Gingrich even had an exit line ready to be declared upon touchdown at Andrews Air Force Base: "If they can make peace in the Middle East...
...next week, parts of the street will be raised to curbs level and asphalt will be laid for walkways, she said. A crew will return to the site in the early spring to install benches and plant trees, shrubs and flowers...
...Serbia, yet Tudjman has vowed to take the territory back by force before the end of the month, when the U.N. mandate expires. The Serbs in eastern Slavonia profess to be unintimidated. "Let him come," says Slobodan Antonic, a commander of the main Serb military force there. "We have laid 250,000 mines, dug 62 miles of new trenches and built more than 100 new bunkers." Despite Tudjman's "crude saber-rattling threats," as one U.S. State Department document has called them, mediators detect a willingness to reach an agreement that would install international monitors for two years before...
...Hubble went into orbit, engineers and scientists realized that something was horribly wrong. The telescope simply wouldn't focus properly--the result, it turned out, of a light-gathering mirror that had been ground with exquisite precision, but in the wrong shape. After a lengthy investigation, the disaster was laid to a simple, dumb mistake: a technician had assembled a device that guided the mirror-grinding process with one bolt put on backward. The hobbled Hubble could still do some important science, but much of its research program appeared headed out the window. "I'd been working on this...
More than 60 world leaders, including President Clinton and former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George Bush, gathered in Jerusalem as assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was laid to rest on Mount Herzl, burial ground of Israeli heroes. Grieving Israelis exhausted the country's supply of mourning candles and stood weeping as a two-minute siren sounded. p.l.o. Chairman Yasser Arafat, who did not attend the funeral, later made a quiet 90-minute visit to Tel Aviv to offer condolences to Rabin's widow Leah...