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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rules of dueling provide that the accused party gets to pick the time, the place and the weapons. But Ken Starr and Bill Clinton have been circling each other for months; each wants the match to take place on his own preferred ground. As long as this has remained a legal contest fought with briefs and staged in a courtroom, Starr has been winning every round. And so all year long, the President's seconds have looked for a way to move the whole bout to a friendlier venue, such as the boiling floor of the House of Representatives, where...
Officials all over the globe hope that such a frightening specter will sober both countries into backing off their nuclear one-upmanship. But for the moment, each seems determined to match the other, bomb for bomb. After India detonated five nuclear devices two weeks ago, the question was not whether Pakistan would respond but when. At 3:30 p.m. last Thursday, the earth at the Chagai test site shook, then collapsed. Needles on seismic recorders from Australia to Sweden bounced forward to 4.9 on the Richter scale, indicating that an underground explosion with the power of 2 to 12 kilotons...
...team an invitation to play in China, paving the way for Nixon's historic visit the next year; in his native Cardiff, Wales. A cutthroat competitor, Evans bristled at the term Ping-Pong diplomacy (he considered Ping-Pong an "awful" name) and, in fact, was disappointed in the storied match, grumbling that the Chinese gave away points...
...Virginia Tech played a terrific match and came out ready," Kim said. "It was more how we were ready to handle things. It was a product of us and the situation more than them. It was a hard way to go out and a hard way to bring my tennis career...
...kind of worried about the team going into Divisionals because our practices have been flat," said Gahan after the tournament. "But the team pleasantly surprised me, going out and whipping B.C., then playing its best match of the year against Brown...