Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CARDINALS AND BIG-CITY MAYORS OUGHT TO HAVE greater concerns than deciding who marches in local parades. But in New York City's hopelessly fractious public discourse, a spat over including homosexuals in the annual St. Patrick's Day celebration has once again grown into a political war. After the organization that has staged the parade for more than 150 years refused to permit gay groups to march under their own banner, Mayor David Dinkins handed control of the parade to an ad hoc group that favored including the gays. John Cardinal O'Connor used his pulpit to decry Dinkins...
...scene that unfolded on a freezing New Year's Eve in Sarajevo, his first stop on a tour of peacekeeping trouble spots. When the Secretary-General declared that he was bringing desperate and besieged Bosnians a "message of hope" that peace would come soon, demonstrators jeered and spat at him. Climbing into an armored car, Boutros-Ghali was pursued by one Sarajevan who pushed his face against a window and screamed, "Murderer! Murderer...
However, believe it or not, activity in Aspen is not restricted to party-going and star-gazing. After all, Ivana and the Donald had their spat on the slopes, not the dance floor. Despite the recent notoriety, Aspen is still a great place to hit the slopes. And believe it or not, the town is full of people more interested in deep powder than deep gossip...
...Andrew Jackson, who ran in 1828 as a man of the common people, the Clintons will throw a reception for the public the day after they move into the White House. Taxpayers can only hope the Clintons have better luck than Old Hickory. His guests broke the furniture and spat tobacco juice in the corners...
...latest spat concerns Beijing's insistence that Patten's proposals to give Hong Kong people a greater voice in choosing their legislators contravene "secret" agreements with Britain on Hong Kong's political shape both before and after 1997. Patten retaliated by releasing the diplomatic traffic that China claimed proved its point. A letter from Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd did refer to an "agreement in principle" about electoral arrangements. But it also mentioned a number of "details" that had to be worked out. Because those negotiations failed, Britain says there was no such deal. Agreed the Hong Kong Standard...