Word: primed
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...change course to avoid Iraq (for obvious reasons) and a storm over the weekend; they are now over the Himalayas, with no landing options in sight, and striving to to steer their craft southward. Meanwhile, their liaison on the ground -- along with the British government and former prime minister Edward Heath -- continues to make appeals to the Chinese. It's par for a rough course: Over the weekend, Libya gave the flight a last-minute reprieve after suddenly withdrawing permission. The hot-air balloon took off from Marrakech, Morocco, on Friday morning, and could reach Europe by New Year...
...British Prime Minister Tony Blair, addressing his nation last night, said there was "no realistic alternative to military force.... We act because we must...
...today. But the President made a strong case last night for the need to launch the attack before Hussein could prepare his defenses and before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins this weekend. Moreover, the President's team of national security advisers unanimously supported the action, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair has mobilized mobilized British forces in the Gulf...
...another hearing after overturning a lower court ruling that would have extradited the former Chilean dictator to Spain. Pinochet's lawyers had appealed the lower court's decision because the judge on the five-person panel who cast the deciding vote is affiliated with Amnesty International, one of the prime movers in the push to bring Pinochet to trial...
...well be remembered as the summit that provided no footholds and no escape. Barely two days after President Clinton met with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton faces a snowballing impeachment movement and Netanyahu faces early elections, probably in the spring. The prime minister announced Wednesday that he would take his hard-line peace policies to the electorate if he could not muster support for them from the Knesset next Monday. Netanyahu's right wing is in shambles over how much hard line and how much peace there should be in those policies. "We're going to elections," predicted confidently...