Word: northerner
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...process he describes as "Americanizing the peace," which, given America's reluctance to engage in the region, seems equally unlikely. He first produced the draft of his proposal last March during secret (but White House-sanctioned) meetings with Democratic Congressman Bill Richardson at Karadjordjevo, a presidential hunting lodge in northern Serbia. Richardson had been invited by Milosevic to pass on to Washington an offer of cooperation, but the Congressman was tasked by the Administration to take the occasion to urge Milosevic to use his muscle to prevent the Croatian Serbs from pressing for the expulsion of U.N. peacekeepers from Croatia...
Peet's Coffee was established in Berkeley, CA in 1966 and since then has developed a loyal following of coffee critics, called "Peetniks," in Northern California...
...thunder from religious conservatives, ordered the Education Department to distribute guidelines to the nation's schools pointing out thatstudents can already pray in the classroom. "The First Amendment does not convert our schools into religion-free zones," Clinton said in an address at James Madison High School in a northern Virginia suburb. Instead, he pointed out, the Constitution allows students to read Bibles or other scriptures, say grace before meals and take part in religious clubs in high schools. "Students can also pray to themselves," he said, drawing laughter when he added: "Preferably before tests, as I used...
...Unabomb) got so talkative that he may give himself away? That was one tantalizing question raised last week by a bizarre blizzard of communications from the nation's most wanted serial killer, which made him almost as visible as if he had publicly emerged from his presumed home in Northern California...
DIED. GORDON WILSON, 67, peace activist; of a heart attack; in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. In 1987 Wilson's daughter was killed by an I.R.A. bomb, and in a moving rejection of his country's bloody bouts of violence and retribution, he publicly forgave her murderers...