Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trial won't end with Volpe's guilty plea -- there are four officers left to go. Two stand accused of beating Louima before Volpe took over, one of covering up afterward, and one, Charles Schwarz, of holding Louima down while Volpe went to work. Which is where Volpe, the "Devil in a Blue Suit" of demonstrators' placards, may reenter the negotiations. "We may now hear from Volpe as to what Schwarz did or didn't do during the incident," says Cohen. "That's the only thing he has to offer prosecutors." Once the blue wall falls, anyone can get crushed...
...called the worst domestic economy since Herbert Hoover. But as tens of thousands of people were gathering in the stifling morning heat outside the city library to hear how the Democrats planned to fix it, Gore was inside the Arkansas Governor's hotel suite persuading him to take a stand on a Balkan dictator most Americans at that point had never even heard of. Within days, Clinton was attacking George Bush for being soft on Slobodan Milosevic and calling for military action. He had started down the road that seven years later led to Kosovo...
...troops in Japan and South Korea. Last week's demonstrators accepted as a given that the U.S. is dedicated to keeping China down. "It is because China is not powerful enough," said a 21-year-old student from Peking University who gave her name as Wan. "We must stand together to make China stronger...
...more at stake in Indonesia's election than simply a basket-case economy in need of rescue from decades of corruption. "Indonesia is the key U.S. geopolitical ally in the region," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "For more than 30 years it's mobilized the Pacific Rim countries to stand up to China's regional ambitions." The 17,000-island archipelago is the world's fourth most populous nation, and controls vital sea routes in the Pacific. And that's why the campaign for the June 7 poll, which began on Wednesday, is setting off alarm bells in Washington...
...persuaded to share power, on its own terms, with the opposition. That's if the election goes ahead: Analysts fear that the campaign could ignite the violent social unrest that has bubbled under the surface since last year -- and if there's one thing the military can't stand, it's civilian chaos...