Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK -- With all the controversies over the role and effectiveness of UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPERS, one issue that has received scant attention, and that U.N. officials are loath to discuss, is the presence of AIDS among the peacekeeping forces. The militaries of countries in sub-Saharan Africa are known to have HIV infection rates as high as 80%, and many of these countries, which may receive a few hundred dollars a month for each soldier, send troops on peacekeeping missions. A U.N. official explains that "we do not discriminate between black, white or AIDS-infected people." But he goes...
Though Demjanjuk may not be the Ivan of Treblinka, evidence suggests he was a Wachmann elsewhere, notably at the Sobibor death camp in Poland. The Supreme Court could convict him on those charges or order that he be tried anew. However, scant proof exists of what Demjanjuk may have done at the other camps. Such a move would also raise questions of selective punishment, since Israel has never before sought to prosecute ordinary Wachmanner...
...turbulent years in the political vortex, she got scant credit for her lasting contributions as First Lady, or even for being a real person behind the tautly composed image. Mostly forgotten is her expansion of the role of First Lady as foreign emissary, on her own. She loved traveling and blossomed visibly in direct ratio to the distance between her mission and the inhibitions imposed on her at home. In 1970 she warmed the frost between the U.S. and Peru when she traveled to towns destroyed by earthquakes, delivering aid and personal comfort to survivors. In West Africa...
...community with such a tepid commitment to free speech is no community we'd want to live in--and seems a poor way to prepare college students for life in the "real world." We're dismayed that someone with such scant regard for the First Amendment has been nominated to head the National Endowment for the Humanities...
...Republican, even one moderated by years on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, can effectively lead a band of young, fiercely partisan White House communications operatives is far from certain. Gergen says he is "convinced" Clinton wants to "run a bipartisan government." But other than Gergen's appointment itself, there has been scant evidence of any commitment to the middle...