Word: strobe
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...refused to rule out a military invasion, though Pentagon aides say no preparations are under way. At an Organization of American States meeting, ministers approved a force of 3,000 to keep the peace after the Haitian regime departs. ABC television reported Friday night that Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott had told U.N. officials the U.S. would invade Haiti in July if sanctions had not succeeded, then hand over quickly to the OAS force. The State Department issued a speedy denial. The U.N. confirmed it had received a memo quoting Talbott but hedged on its contents...
...works. Other warning signs of a confrontation proliferate, says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. The French government is evacuating its dependents. The U.S. Marines have begun military exercises off Cuba's Guantanamo, about 100 miles from Haiti's coast. ABC News reports that U.N. documents quote Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott as saying the U.S. will not wait beyond the end of July before using force. In Haiti the government has responded with attacks by thugs on U.N. observer teams, beating up several officials...
...trial balloons go, this one has more air than most. But who would replace Christopher? Five people are mentioned by those familiar with the Administration's desire to project a new certitude abroad. From among the current insiders are Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, an intellectually gifted friend of the President's; and National Security Adviser Tony Lake, who appears to have the greatest day-to-day influence on Clinton when the subject is foreign affairs. The question, though, is whether anyone from the present roster would be seen as a credible "agent of change," to borrow a favorite...
...Most people do their partying in otherplaces," Cress says. "If they do it in the dorm,it's pretty quietly--no strobe lights or anythinglike that...
...Avedon brought his camera to the Berlin Wall on the nights that thousands of people gathered on either side to celebrate its fall. The Whitney retrospective ends with the pictures he made there. Strobe-lit crowd shots full of wild spirits, they hint that freedom has its demented side and that the end of communism might unleash new terrors of its own. Are those pictures pure reporting, or are they artifice? And is this the right line of inquiry? Perhaps instead of worrying about where Avedon falls on the continuum between death and Dovima, we should recognize that his pictures...