Word: michell
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...road leading up to the presidential palace, former headquarters of renegade General Michel Aoun, Lebanese army soldiers sat proudly last week atop hundreds of Soviet-made T-54 tanks, savoring the defeat of the mutinous general. Their presence testified to the Lebanese government's new hold on Beirut, but the symbolism was illusory. Beneath the Lebanese paper flags that the troops plastered on the tanks' turrets were Syrian army markings. The Lebanese soldiers were only window dressing, for the T-54s had been manned by Syrian troops in the offensive that dislodged Aoun two weeks...
...crisis stretches on, it becomes increasingly clear that members of the anti-Saddam alliance have their own goals to pursue. Last week, for example, Lebanese President Elias Hrawi asked Syria to help him rout his rival, General Michel Aoun, from his stronghold in Beirut's Christian enclave, thus giving Damascus the opportunity to complete its control of Lebanon at a moment when the world is distracted by other events in the Middle East. Syrian President Hafez Assad ordered thousands of troops to Beirut to beef up the 10,000 Syrian soldiers already there. On Friday a lone gunman shot twice...
Skardon Baker paced the Crimson early, holding the lead after the first mile. However, Baker soon faded. The bulk of the race was paced by the Yale tandem of Jim Gibson and Jake Michel and Princeton's Bill Burke. Gibson and Burke dueled to the finish, with Burke coming out on top, covering the five-mile course in 25:58. Gibson finished second, a mere three seconds back...
...middle-income taxpayers. The White House and congressional leadership had hoped to overwhelm qualms about the pact's fairness by arguing that it was the best compromise that could be achieved. But as soon as the plan was presented, the Administration, House Speaker Tom Foley and minority leader Robert Michel promptly found themselves absorbing fire from left, right and center. The plan's Medicare component immediately became one paradigm of the scheme's vulnerabilities. Loreen Gephardt, 81, mother of the House majority leader, seemed to speak for the 33 million other Medicare recipients when she urged her son to leave...
...subsequent debate on the House floor probably changed few minds. Michel, whose leadership of the G.O.P. has been cruelly undercut, admonished his followers to focus on the importance of the whole package rather than its objectionable provisions. "We can pick apart the agreement with 1,000 points of spite," he said. "If we do, we'll not only lose the agreement but our ability to govern." Departing from the tradition that the Speaker usually does not take part in floor debates, Foley went to the floor to deliver an impassioned appeal...