Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SENATOR JOE BIDEN, just back from a visit to the former Yugoslavia, is preparing a memo for President Clinton that suggests one way the U.S. could justify the unilateral use of force against the Serbs. Biden plans to tell the President that because U.N. resolutions permit "all necessary means" to deliver humanitarian aid to Bosnia, the Serbian gunners who threaten aid convoys are fair targets for American bombs. Biden will also suggest that the U.S. should abandon the arms embargo against Bosnia, thus literally giving the Serbs' victims more of a fighting chance. As one member of Biden's staff...
...eyes away from the four defendants. An anxious city and nation listened as court clerk Jim Holmes began to read, in a practiced drone, the verdict the jurors had just handed Judge John Davies. How did the panel find on the charge that police sergeant Stacey Koon "did willfully permit" the savage beating of Rodney King by three other cops under his command, thus depriving King of his constitutional rights? Said Holmes: "Guilty...
...Council Randall A. Fine '96 said he could spend "as much as I want" on ads if he remains within the limits of Council by-laws. If campus publications raised their ad prices through the roof, presuming that the Council actually pays for ads, the by-laws would permit the Council, at [the secretary's] discretion, to spend the entire Council budget...
...sending his condolences, President De Klerk appealed to black leaders to keep their followers under control. In a rare nationally televised address, Nelson Mandela replied with an exhortation of his own: "This killing must stop. We must not permit ourselves to be provoked. Let us respond with dignity...
...English. That doesn't matter: even in the French version, the actors do not speak. They just pantomime and lip-synch to a portentous voice- over narration that calls to mind Alexander Scourby somberly narrating some war documentary. This technique enabled the show to be imported intact, and will permit performances in Spanish in Mexico City and seven U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations...