Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote (with 10 abstentions) accords the Palestinians the unique status of nonvoting member of the General Assembly, giving them the right to speak and cosponsor resolutions. More importantly for Yasser Arafat, it signals overwhelming international support for his planned declaration of independence next year. But if international consensus counted for anything in the Middle East, the state of Palestine would be two decades old. The decisions that count are made in Washington, where Palestinian statehood still remains a taboo topic...
...wants no part of such talk: it prefers that Kosovo remain within Yugoslavia as a fully autonomous republic but without the right to secede. Of more immediate concern is how much support Rugova commands among the increasingly bellicose and fragmented rebels. Holbrooke presses Rugova, who insists that he can speak for the K.L.A. in negotiations with Milosevic. Holbrooke is far from convinced. After the meeting, he taps out a FOR YOUR EYES ONLY message to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on his progress: no good news to report...
...shouted, "Khatami, we love you!" and denounced the conservative mullahs in Qum as "Taliban," an insulting allusion to the ultra-fundamentalists governing neighboring Afghanistan. When a small section of hard-line students began yelling "Death to America!" the President reprimanded them, declaring "In this gathering, I prefer that we speak about life, not death." The majority in the audience cheered...
...seem to have triggered the latest spiral. Appearing before the Senate Finance Committee, he was asked why the U.S. was doing nothing to support the yen. "Intervention is a temporary tool," he replied. "The whole answer lies in Japan doing what it needs to do." As he continued to speak, an aide passed him a note saying the yen had suddenly begun to drop. Apparently assuming that Washington would remain on the sidelines, dealers had sold billions of yen, sending the currency to an eight-year...
...freely admit, a visitor--who doesn't even speak the language. I am a novice traveler. But consider one observation from my stay in the cosmopolitan city of Fukuoka...