Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...path was cleared by three promises from the North Koreans. In a letter to Washington they pledged they would not extract the plutonium -- enough for four or five atom bombs -- from the 8,000 fuel rods they removed from their nuclear reactor at Yongbyon earlier this month. They will not reload the 5-MW reactor with new fuel rods. And they will allow international inspectors to remain on duty to verify those promises. "This does not solve the problem," Clinton said, "but it certainly gives us the basis for seeking a solution." To pursue it, the two sides will...
...mother Eunice, a hospital orderly, recalls that even before he went to kindergarten, he would tell her that "someday you're going to read about me." But not, surely, as one of the greatest sports heroes of his generation. For him and his friends growing up, the path to prison looked short and straight. They hung out in the San Francisco projects, stoning cars, fighting, getting hauled into juvenile hall. "I only beat up dudes who deserved it," he once said, "at least once a week, usually on Friday or Saturday night. If there wasn't no fight, it wasn...
...avidly Stalinist ruler until his death in 1985, is broad in reach; a set of his collected works sprawls across a good meter of bookshelf. But the public's appetite never matched the government's passion for printing the dictator's often paranoid musings on Albania's sole true path to proletariat rule and his lonely struggle against nonbelievers. Since the 1991 fall of the communist government, some of Hoxha's tracts have been recycled as housing insulation, but at least 600 tons of the books are moldering expensively in Albanian warehouses. Last week the government announced a solution: millions...
...enterprise. Here was the acclaimed author of such works as The Time of the Hero and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter immersing himself in the rococo poltics of a country embattled by stratospheric inflation, pervasive corruption, severe ethnic tensions and a murderous band of Maoists known as the Shining Path. Most of Vargas Llosa's readers sighed happily when he finally lost in June 1990 to Alberto Fujimori...
...Harvard has a complex library system," Schoon says. "Librarians are not necessarily subject specialists, but rather path-finders...