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The program also requires the university or corporation in question to sign a "Memorandum of Understanding." This document is a non-binding pledge to install, within a maximum of five years, "Green Lights" systems in all the U.S. workspaces owned by participating institutions.
This year's pledge from the major industrialized countries was $24 billion, half in direct grants and credits and half from the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and official debt rescheduling. Moscow should collect nearly $18 billion directly from donor countries by the end of the year, but the multilateral...
-- Political infighting and discontent over a deteriorating economy catapulted Lithuania's former communist leaders back into office on promises of restoring order and slowing the painful process of reform. The government of President Vytautas Landsbergis, who courageously led the resistance to the bloody Soviet army crackdown in January 1990, was...
That makes the U.S.'s new pledge for troops welcome, especially since it is coupled with the necessary willingness to compromise on who controls the allied forces when they are in Somalia. While the U.S. will probably retain control in this case, their apparent flexibility is helpful.
Bill Clinton never experienced hostile fire in Vietnam or anywhere else, but last week the future Commander in Chief learned firsthand what baptism by fire means. His affirmation of his campaign pledge to lift the Pentagon's ban on homosexuals serving in the military triggered such anger, especially in the...