Word: requester
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ROME: A Kurdish rebel's request for asylum in Italy has put Turkey in a straitjacket: The more it fights Italy to extradite Abdullah Ocalan on terrorism charges, the more difficult its pursuit of prized European Union membership becomes. "Ironically, Italy has been Turkey's strongest supporter in its bid to join the EU," says TIME Rome reporter Martin Penner. Which makes attacking Italy a case of biting the hand that feeds. Moreover, "the threat to boycott Italian goods could bring further problems, since Italy is one of Turkey's most important trading partners and a trade war would hurt...
...Turks were infuriated Friday when Ocalan moved into a Rome apartment after being released from prison pending the outcome of his asylum request. Turkey warned the EU against supporting Kurdish separatists and sent 30,000 troops to root out Ocalan's supporters at his stronghold in eastern Turkey. But there appears to be little Ankara can do to shake Italy's resolve, which means Ocalan's careful choice of sanctuary...
Carson began working on the project in 1985,upon the request of King's widow, Corretta ScottKing...
...impeachment process appears to be fragmenting still further. When House Judiciary chair Henry Hyde turned down a White House request to question Ken Starr for more than 30 minutes during the independent counsel's public appearance Thursday, he warned the President's lawyers not to probe Starr on "nongermane matters." In other words, Hyde said, no investigating the investigator: All questions must be restricted to his impeachment referral. But with spectacularly bad timing, Starr has dropped hints that he plans to step outside those bounds. His speech, aides told the New York Times, will roam beyond the Lewinsky matter before...
...reapings in order to let Bill wind up his affairs in an orderly fashion. In return, he asks only that his victim teach him something about life. It does not occur to director Martin Brest and the raft of screenwriters employed on this enterprise that this is an illogical request. Who would know more about life than the figure who confronts us in our final moments, when all pride, all pomp, all defenses are stripped away...