Word: poste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potential Y2K problems, but it is Russia's defense and attack systems, not our own, that give them the jitters. To forestall any Strangelovian mishaps, NORAD intends to create a "joint confidence center" and has invited Russian officials to join them in mid-December at a scaled-down command post. If computer screens in Russia go dark or mistakenly signal a U.S. missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that it's a false alarm before someone over there hits the attack buttons. The Russians, especially in light of Kosovo, have been cool...
Sources: Washington Post; USA Today; General Accounting Office; Reuters
...home a pair, one for columnist Maureen Dowd's cranky Clinton-Lewinsky columns and another for Jeff Gerth's chronicling of the China satellite flap. The Wall Street Journal netted two as well, one for International Reporting (the Russian financial meltdown) and one for Feature Writing. And the Washington Post took home the Public Service award for "Deadly Force," about reckless gunplay by D.C. police officers. For photography, it was an historic but not-too-surprising sweep for AP of both Spot News (Africa embassy bombings) and Feature (a Lewinsky and Clinton spread...
...some of the journalism hardware, given out at Columbia University, made it quite a bit down the news-establishment food chain, from the L.A. Times to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which isn't even a daily. The rest of the best...
...Editorial cartooning: David Horsey of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer...