Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...came last week. In the fraud-and-conspiracy trial brought by Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, a jury in Little Rock returned 24 guilty verdicts against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker and Clinton's former partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim and Susan McDougal. After nine weeks of dry courtroom exposition, the jury essentially concluded that the defendants had used McDougal's savings and loan as a private cookie jar, dipping into it for bogus loans to bankroll their many business schemes. Clinton wasn't a defendant in the case (merely a witness for the defense), and most jurors...
...other peace track is supposed to be with Syria, but here too Netanyahu has thrown up daunting obstacles. Forget land for peace, he says: Damascus can have peace for peace. Labor and the U.S. have operated on the principle that Syrian President Hafez Assad wants above all to regain the Golan Heights taken by Israel in 1967. But Labor's offer to hand back the territory if sufficient security arrangements could be worked out was not enough to tempt Assad into giving Israel the full, open peace it demanded in return. Netanyahu thinks Assad might be persuaded to stop harboring...
...under no obligation to close an agreement because it takes two to agree; I am under obligation to negotiate for the next three years in an endeavor to reach an agreement, and my view is yes, autonomy for the Palestinians as a people, but not autonomy over land." On the Palestinian question, Netanyahu is kidding himself, and he risks dragging Israel into another armed confrontation with Palestinians...
...Croatia was the result of "failure of command, aircrew error and an improperly-designed instrument approach procedure." In a 22-volume, 7,000 page report, investigators concluded that all three factors were necessary for the accident to occur. The report said the plane should never have been allowed to land at Dubrovnik, because it was not equipped to handle the airport's 1930's-era navigational landing system. In addition, the pilots were not properly trained for landing at civilian airports, particularly in Eastern European countries. As a result, the pilots spent the last minutes of their lives dealing with...
...Garden Street did not lack the wonderful diversity of the Yard community. A conservative Filipino-American from the lovely garden state of "New Joisie," I found myself living with a wacky West Coast liberal from that mythical state of California--a place whose name can be loosely translated as "land of earthquakes and elective cosmetic surgery." Across the hall from us lived a brilliant mathematician from Ohio and a talented tenor from West Virginia. (Our friend from West Virginia was one of four Asian-American residents of his county--the other three being his father, his mother and his older...