Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trying to calm Republican congressional critics of the U.S.-North Korea nuclear deal today, Defense Secretary William Perry said that the alternative to the $4 billion accord is heightened military tension in the region. Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole had said the Senate might question the "legality and wisdom of aiding North Korea." Perry also said that North Korea has been keeping promises to halt its nuclear program, even during tense negotiations over the fate of Bobby Hall...
...anthropology department and the Peabody, "there's a tension between research and teaching," says Associate Professor of Anthropology Robert W. Preucel...
...Lisa Beyer says Laborites expected a popularity bubble after Israel's new peace treaty with Jordan, the granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and an optimistic economic outlook. Instead, she says, public opinion is dwelling on drawn-out negotiations with Syria, growing tension with an old ally, Egypt, and failures of the peace process with the PLO While there is still time for Labor to recover before the scheduled 1996 elections, Beyer says "party members fear the polls reflect a to-the-dogs reality about the current regime...
...tension was palpable," says Sameer Ferrell '95, who also arrived right before the deadline. "Nearly everyone was out of breath from running there...
...groups didn't have much contact at all," Kaunfer says. "There was extreme tension...