Word: stampings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CONSTITUTION: A relic not worth defending. The 150 legislators who barricaded themselves in Moscow's White House last week claimed to be fighting against "Yeltsin's anticonstitutional regime." But the Constitution dates back to 1978 and was conceived when "parliament" was little more than a rubber stamp. The document fails to distinguish between the executive and legislative branches of government, offers no coherent foundation for lawmaking and has been amended over 300 times. The reason for parliament's loyalty to it: thanks to its inherent ambiguities, the Constitution serves as an ideal instrument for hamstringing Yeltsin...
...easy to enter an intellectual coma on the last day of exams (or even earlier) and sleep through the summer without ever picking up a newspaper or watching the evening news. So in case you missed Dan Rostenkowski's stamp-gate, the White House's suicide-gate, Ross Perot's talk-show-gate, General John Shalikashvili's Nazi-gate and Jesse Helm's Dixie-gate, here are the highlights of the summer...
...Minh City an aunt, living in devastating poverty, is hopeful that her relatives in America will help her. "I wanted to write letters," she says between tears, "but I couldn't afford the stamp." Tiana hears gruesome testimony from Amerasian orphans and My Lai survivors. In Hanoi she dances with Oliver Stone at the Metropole hotel and converses with Le Duc Tho, Pham Van Dong, General Giap -- old warriors from an old nightmare...
...means, no matter how lethal, to overthrow the secular government of President Hosni Mubarak, a key ally of the U.S. In response, the Cairo government and its security forces have shown they will raid, arrest and hang as many militants as they think it will take to stamp out the insurrection...
...past four years, Western intelligence agencies have suspected Sudan of playing a major role in promoting Islamic terror around the world. But there still hasn't been any real proof offered: no reputable eyewitnesses, no photographs, no documents. Nevertheless, the U.S. last week put its official stamp on the proposition, adding the country to its short list of pariah states sponsoring terrorism. The State Department declared that "evidence currently available" showed that Sudan allows its territory to be used as a sanctuary and training ground for all manner of Muslim fundamentalist and radical organizations. The announcement followed news reports that...