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...every joyous Nader loyalist, there are several fuming Democrats. As the recount began in Florida's bitterly contested presidential race, faithful Dems were pointing angrily to Nader's 97,000 votes, 10 percent of which would have pushed the Sunshine State into Gore's column. In Oregon, where the race remains too close to call, Nader is also expected to pull in a healthy vote count - numbers that could certainly have saved the state for the Democrats, if Nader had not been a factor...
...best advertisement for gender equality. She was the first--and is still the only--female three-star general in the Army. Defense Secretary William Cohen lauded her last fall as "an officer who has made a career of defying barriers." Moreover, fellow officers say she is an Army loyalist who would never take a "cheap shot" at the service she loves. Nevertheless, she has dealt the Army a major blow by filing a sexual-harassment complaint against a fellow general. The incident allegedly occurred in Kennedy's Pentagon office in late 1996, when a male major general--the same rank...
...British loyalist paramilitary groups began to decommission over a year ago, and yet the IRA has refused to give even a clear committal to surrendering its caches of weaponry. Faced with the IRA's intransigence, first minister Trimble assured his party that he would resign from the cabinet rather than participate in a government threatened by an armed IRA. The British government wisely resumed direct rule in order to prevent Trimble's resignation, which would have destroyed the legitimacy of the power-sharing government. An IRA statement issued just hours before the British reclaimed control, in which the IRA proposed...
Montenegro-born Mr. Bulatovic was a fierce Milosevic loyalist who helped organize his Kosovo campaign, and there had been some speculation in Belgrade that his killing may have been a retaliation for the death of Arkan. "But we don't really know who ordered Arkan's killing, and the speculation over Bulatovic's death has been all over the place," says Anastasijevic. "There's clearly a violent power struggle taking place within the regime. Although they are united politically, there are different interest groups in the regime fighting turf wars for control of money and resources." Despite the recent assassinations...
DIED. KEN W. CLAWSON, 63, director of communications for the Nixon White House in its final months; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. A staunch loyalist before and after the resignation, he once told the New York Times, "I'm just one of Richard Nixon's spear carriers and proud...