Word: repeated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President endorsed Mitchell's new posture. Asked by reporters, he declined three times to repeat his threat to veto any bill that does not provide universal coverage. White House aides think they can offset the image of Clinton the flip-flopper by playing up the image of Clinton the man who at least made the first important steps in the direction of change. Even so, the President is wary of the mainstream plan. While it offers a promise of keeping health-care inflation in check, which was one of his goals, it aims to reach just 93% of all Americans...
...Bukavu fears a repeat of the huge exodus that brought 1.2 million Rwandans into Zaire last month. The latest tide could pour out of southwestern Rwanda this week, when the last of 2,500 French soldiers who established a safe zone in June for 1.5 million frightened Hutu are scheduled to depart. Under domestic pressure to bring its troops home, the French government last week ignored a plea by the U.S. to stay on until the situation stabilizes. The Hutu fear that the African troops of the United Nations force replacing the French will not be able to guarantee their...
History doesn't repeat: Woodstock '94 orders an outhouse armada...
Angered by a massive anti-government demonstration on the Havana waterfront, Cuban President Fidel Castro warned that unless the U.S. stops offering asylum to fleeing Cubans, he will allow the free departure of those who want to leave the country. That could trigger a repeat of the 1980 Mariel exodus, which saw some 125,000 Cubans arrive in Florida within a few months, overwhelming U.S. officials. Said Castro: "We cannot continue to guard the coasts...
...flocking to the three-day event in upstate New York. Some 180,000 scored the $135 tickets. Melissa Etheridge, Aerosmith, the Spin Doctors, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and veteran Woodstocker Joe Cocker will perform over the weekend. One aspect of the original Woodstock threatens to repeat itself -- weather forecasters predict on-again off-again thunderstorms that would once again turn the fields of the 850-acre farm into...