Word: lift
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Despite a House vote Thursday to lift the Bosnia arms embargo and a personal plea from the Bosnian prime minister in Washington today, the White House said President Clinton would promptly veto the measure if it reached his desk. "We don't believe the answer to the conflict in Bosnia is to escalate the war," said White House spokesman Mike McCurry. The Administration believes that lifting the embargo would anger France, Britain and other countries with peacekeeping troops in the region, andtrigger a commitment of 25,000 American troopsto helpevacuate the peacekeepersand protect the Muslims from a predicted new Serbian...
...House voted 318 to 99to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, overriding objections that the unilateral action would inevitablydraw the U.S. into the Balkan war. The Clinton Administration opposes lifting the ban for that reason. "It will put Americans right in the middle of the hottest war today," Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) said in today's debate. But a growing number of Republicans and Democrats believe that the U.S. must side with Bosnia's Muslim government against the Serbs.TIME correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the resolution will likely squeak through the Senate; if so, President Clinton could stop the action only...
...never married, as far as anyone knew. The CIA was her life. She lived alone in a condo in McLean, Virginia, so close to the CIA's headquarters in Langley that she walked to work each day. If a co-worker stopped to offer her a lift, she would not accept unless it was raining hard...
Tony: My first reaction, as my annoying roommate repeatedly attempted to lift me out of my comatose state, was to call him some names that I'd rather not mention in print. Nevertheless, he managed to drag me out of bed and into the common room. As I stood there, asleep on my feet, he asked me if I noticed whether there was anything strange about the room; immediately, my eyes honed in on the figure lying fast asleep on the futon, wearing what looked like one of my roommate's numerous plaid J. Crew shirts. Very quickly, I circled...
Kluttz says he was particularly struck by the gruesome process of identifying the bodies, especially those of children. Since in many cases rescuers could find only pieces of bodies, some had to go to homes to do things like lift finger prints off of cribs so that identifications could be made...