Word: nunn
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...Ridge nuclear-storage facility in Tennessee. Over the next several months, the Energy Department will entertain offers from private industry to turn the highly enriched uranium into lower- grade commercial reactor fuel. The Administration touted the mission as a good reason to keep money flowing to the beleaguered Nunn-Lugar account. The fund -- named for sponsors Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia and Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana -- is a congressional appropriation that finances denuclearization in the states of the former Soviet Union. It is likely to face opposition next year as the G.O.P. takes over Congress...
...prescient to identify Les Aspin in 1974 as someone who might go far. Back then he was simply a two-term Congressman with an interest in military affairs, yet he rose all the way to Secretary of Defense. How well did that turn out? Clinton, Rather, Biden, Senator Sam Nunn, columnist George Will, California Governor and possible Republican presidential nominee Pete Wilson, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Citibank CEO John Reed -- all were on the lists of potential leaders, and all could be said to have realized their potential. Even so, the leadership vacuum remains. We have the leaders we wanted...
Director Trevor Nunn and designer John Napier, the Cats team, have fashioned one coup de theatre after another, reprising Wilder's opening with the newly deceased hero (Alan Campbell as Joe Gillis) facedown in a swimming pool, and working up to a levitating mansion. This larger-than-larger-than-life approach ; doomed the gentle Aspects, but it suits the more histrionic material of Sunset. Some of the lyrics, though, have got to go. To have Joe sing that L.A. has changed a lot "since those brave gold rush pioneers/ Came in their creaky covered wagons" is ridiculous. L.A. barely existed...
...delegations drove over to the Presidential Palace. Carter and Nunn went in one car, and Powell rode with Cedras, straddling a pile of rifle grenades. And then came the final standoff. Jonassaint convened the Cabinet, and the agreement was on the table. Said Nunn: "It became very apparent that General Cedras was not going to ever say, 'I agree.' " Then Carter dramatically reached out and signed the agreement himself. Would the Haitians respond? Who among them would sign...
Jonassaint went around the room consulting the Cabinet. The defense and information ministers objected to the deal. Nevertheless, Jonassaint said, "I will sign. I will not let my people experience this tragedy. Our back is against the wall." Said Nunn: "We were in one heck of a fix because President Clinton had told us that we could not get the signature of president Jonassaint, whom we didn't recognize. Cedras said it was a court-martial offense for him to sign for the government because he wasn't the government." Nunn turned to Carter. "We can't do this unless...