Word: reopening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even U.S. allies like France and Turkey that had helped fight the Gulf War were eager to welcome Iraq back into the fold. For months Baghdad had been negotiating deals with former trading partners, all of them hoping to reopen a hugely lucrative market. And Iraq was making progress on other fronts: Rolf Ekeus, the U.N. official charged with setting up the system to monitor weapons building inside Iraq, was about to report to the Security Council that Iraq was in provisional compliance with that significant U.N. requirement...
Discount bookseller Barillari Book Store mysteriously shut its doors last week, leaving a darkened, cluttered suite and no indication as to whether it will reopen...
...Senate Republicans, calling for 13 changes in the crime package that cleared the House on Aug. 21, forced a procedural vote to reopen the bill to further amendment. Supporters of the package, who needed 60 votes to defeat this procedural challenge, prevailed, 61 to 39 (recorded below), thus clearing the way for a final up-or-down vote on HR3355. The bill passed...
...after China sweetened a much criticized U.S. trade deal with a promise to reopen dialogue over its dismal human-rights policies, the Chinese government detained a leading dissident and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest. Police took the dissident, Wang Dan, from his home for questioning but released him seven hours later. That's the second time he's been detained since U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown arrived Saturday for a Beijing visit. Brown had declared yesterday's offer a vindication of the U.S. decision to stop threatening to link China's most-favored-nation trade status and human...
...week; on Monday alone, 1,486 were picked up at sea, the largest single number in one day since the September 1991 military coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. With the current processing center on a Navy ship off Jamaica already jammed, President Bill Clinton was forced to reopen the old facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba to handle the overflow. "This should have been anticipated," said Ernest Preeg, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former U.S. ambassador to Haiti. "And I think the surge will continue...