Word: preventive
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...writing to the Security Council. First, he said, the inspectors would seal the entrances and exits of the palace or building and put a helicopter overhead to keep watch. Then they would summon a Cabinet-level Iraqi official to the scene. That would be done, Ekeus says, to prevent the Iraqis from claiming that inspectors were kept out of the site by uninformed, low-level military people. Then the inspectors were to go in, first with a team of four, look at everything, and call in more experts if they uncovered anything suspicious...
...House and Pentagon say this comes as news to them. Yes, they agree, some relatively small shipments of military supplies have reached Iraq, but nothing that would amount to billions of dollars. "We're unaware of any big stuff going in," says an official. "It is probably impossible to prevent small leakages," he says, "but we don't think it's a major problem...
...themselves to protect Madikizela-Mandela. From his prison cell, Richardson claimed she not only ordered Seipei's murder but also told him to kill another youngster, a girl she believed to be a police informer. Last week Katiza Cebekhulu, who said he was smuggled out of the country to prevent his giving testimony linking her to a number of Soweto murders, was one of more than 40 people called by the Truth Commission to testify to the activities of Winnie Mandela. Pointing his finger at her, the slightly built, nervous Cebekhulu declared, "I saw her kill Stompie." She shook...
Lack of fast-track authority will have little effect immediately. But it might prevent Clinton from negotiating agreements that would keep U.S. exports increasing in later years. And exports are a far bigger part of the U.S. economy, and a much more potent factor powering recent growth, than the public--or Congress--generally realizes...
RACING HEART In patients with an irregular heartbeat, implantable defibrillators prevent sudden death significantly better than drugs...