Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wait for a White House chat. Nor did Barak want his subordinates running relations. In a confidential memo, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright advised Clinton that the ex-general was secretive and didn't have a large circle of aides "who knew his mind." A one-on-one relationship with Barak, she said, would be "extremely important...
...knows that in the delicate triangular relationship linking China, Taiwan and the U.S., the subtlest of words and actions can spark a conflagration. When he persuaded Washington to let him visit his alma mater, Cornell, four years ago, the first-of-a-kind trip by a Taiwanese leader since the U.S. dropped diplomatic recognition of Taiwan in 1979, the incident seemed trivial. But China literally went ballistic. In the midst of Lee's campaign for re-election, the People's Republic, which regards Taiwan as a "renegade province," staged ominous military exercises in the narrow waterway separating the island from...
Last week Lee sent another shudder through the tangled relationship. In a carefully calculated statement, he cut away the political fiction that has kept the three parties at peace for nearly three decades. Taiwan, he said, no longer subscribed to the deliberately ambiguous "one China" formula that deemed the Chinese mainland and Taiwan two parts of the same country. From now on, declared Lee, Taiwan intended to operate on a "state-to-state" basis with the mainland, demanding that Beijing treat the island as an equal. This "clarification" to Beijing's ears seemed touchily close to a declaration of independence...
...Lexington woman reported to CPD that after she severed a relationship with a Cambridge resident, the man became increasingly agitated and began shocking himself with a stun gun. The woman reported that the man had followed her to her sister's house and left a threatening note on her car. She said he also called her sister and told the woman, "This is just the beginning...
...understandable that techno musicians might forget about soul, too enchanted by the heady relationship between a mixer and the human ear. This fact is all-too obvious to Moby, one of the most important figures of the early-90s dance scene, a controversial artist who has always stretched the boundaries of techno. On his latest album, Play, those boundaries are completely obliterated in a sea of soulful music that's eerily timeless and breathtakingly beautiful...