Word: rift
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...such scrutiny? Because USAMRIID handles the deadliest pathogens known to man, including Ebola, Marburg virus, Rift Valley fever--and, of course, anthrax. It was at Fort Detrick that the U.S. stockpile of biological weapons was manufactured in the 1960s, and at USAMRIID that research into deadly germs was concentrated for the next three decades...
...Richard Armitage, the two hawks argued that after the seizure of an arms-laden boat headed from Iran to the Palestinian Authority, all ties to Arafat should be cut. "[Cheney and Rumsfeld] made a run, but it didn't work," says a senior Administration official. The move worsened the rift between Powell and Cheney and necessitated a closed-door meeting between the national security team and President Bush last Friday. In the end, the Administration split the difference: telephone contacts with Arafat can continue, but Zinni will not return to the region for further talks until Arafat cracks down completely...
That possibility was widely discussed earlier this month after a rift between West and University President Lawrence H. Summers was reported in the national media...
...Sunday, the Bush Administration's internal rift over prisoners taken in the war on terrorism stepped right up to the chain-link doors of the cells holding Taliban and Al-Qaeda captives at Guantanamo. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld walked into Camp X-Ray, a detainee who had just finished washing his face wrapped his towel over his hair in the manner of Arab headwear. A U.S. military police guard told him to take it off, worried that weapons - like the rocks Guantanamo brass suspect the detainees may be using to write covert notes of revolt to one another - could...
...Team”—DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74—will also leave for Princeton. That possibility was widely discussed earlier this month after a rift between West and University President Lawrence H. Summers was reported in the national media...