Word: lift
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...superiors, he proved unusually outspoken for a mid-level Foreign Service officer. In April he and 11 colleagues wrote a letter to Christopher urging military intervention to help the Muslims; the missive somehow leaked to the New York Times. In May, when Christopher asked the allies to lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian government and bomb Serb targets, "we were excited that the U.S. was finally moving the right way. That went straight to hell in a matter of days," he says, when Christopher returned empty-handed. Last week's bomb-or-not-to-bomb contortions made...
There are those who argue that some of the ethnic cleansing that has put hundreds of thousands of Bosnians to flight can be undone -- and can be prevented from happening again. Wohlstetter and others contend that Washington has been too quick to abandon its option of "lift and strike" -- lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims and strike at mainly Serbian heavy weapons with aircraft and limited ground forces. But it may be too late for that, with Sarajevo on the verge of defeat. In any case, the lift option is vehemently opposed by all of Europe except Germany...
...total of roughly 170 investigations of various types in the former country and 110 in the latter. The high numbers seem to indicate that Vietnam -- recently, at least -- has been very cooperative in helping with POW/MIAs. This may make a difference as Washington decides in September whether to lift its two-decade-old trade embargo against Vietnam...
...policy, which the Joint Chiefs of Staff narrowly endorsed, was a compromise between those who wanted to maintain the military's long-standing ban on gays and those who wanted the ban lifted completely. The president, who had promised to lift the ban during his campaign, said he agreed to the compromise because Congress and the military would not tolerate any stronger reforms...
...Bill Campbell, and within an hour of landing, both were on a boat in St. Charles County, just north of the city, reporting on the calamity firsthand and uncovering the kind of anecdotes about human nature that catastrophes seem to inspire. Says Hull: "The man who gave us a lift on his boat seemed more upset by the fact that the floods had forced him to move back with his ex-wife than with the massive destruction itself." And in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, prisoners and housewives worked side by side tossing sandbags. Hull was impressed by the resilience of flood...