Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long national nightmare unless you have an open-and-shut case. But your crusade is all the chattering classes have left. Better that you be the first I.C. to prosecute a cover-up of a sin, not a crime, than that we return to covering IMF funding and NATO expansion. As you put it, Vaya con Dios...
...There are ways to get around" the controls, admits Commerce Under Secretary William Reinsch. A license isn't required for exports to NATO countries in Europe, where U.S. stun guns can be reshipped elsewhere. Air Taser has arranged for manufacturing facilities in Russia, Mexico and Taiwan to produce its weapons. Their export from those countries doesn't require U.S. approval...
...Atlantic Council of the United States, a group that grew out of NATO devoted to studying U.S. foreign policy and world relations, commissioned Reversing Relations with Former Adversaries as a part of their project on U.S. relations with Cuba. This academic association presents case studies of nations that have become friendlier towards the United States since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. The council aims to provide information about how the U.S. should approach the much looked-for normalization of diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba...
...Depression--an apt name--had presented a comparable challenge to national optimism, and that was followed by the reassuring wartime victory and postwar boom. In the '70s that boom gave way to a different explosion--in oil prices, interest rates and inflation. OPEC would prove to have powers that NATO could only dream of. Even the environmental movement would sound a warning: air and water, the fundamentals of life, were in limited supply. Though that mood receded in the '80s, traces of it linger in the new skepticism about large government undertakings, whether that means health-care reform or unilateral...
...through several finance and management positions to a coveted slot, Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. In that office he oversaw 80,000 troops in 17 military operations. But his real entrance onto the world diplomatic stage came in August 1995, when he agreed to the launching of massive NATO air strikes against the Bosnian Serbs, a policy Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali adamantly opposed. The decision won Annan the admiration of the Clinton Administration, which began hatching plans to get Annan into the top spot...