Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...producer Moya Doherty was faced with creating a seven-minute filler piece for the 1994 Eurovision pop-song contest. "I wanted to show a modern image of Ireland," she says, "not the old green pastures. Irish dance is frozen in tradition, and I thought it's time to thaw...
...directly," says Waller. "You'll see the indirect stuff, sniping and terrorist attacks. But the Pentagon thinks the Serbs will abide the NATO presence through the winter months. It's snowing there. No one fights in the winter. The real test will come in the springtime when the snows thaw and the armies can move. The other thing, say these Pentagon sources, is that they'll just wait out the year...
...Qian Qichen and Secretary of State Warren Christopher, American officials announced that Beijing's plans to sell two nuclear reactors to Iran had been terminated. Not so, said Qian. The sale had been suspended only because of problems with the original site. Western diplomats, looking for signs of a thaw in Sino-American relations, think Qian's denial may be merely an attempt to save face back home...
...thaw brought on by last week's release ofHarry Wuand First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision to attend a women's conference in China could result in a summit between President Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Of course,there's a catch. The Chinese Foreign Ministry today suggested the two leaders might meet if the U.S. "honors its commitment on the question of Taiwan."As far as Beijing is concerned, Washington reneged on its promise to support "one China" when Clinton approved a U.S. visa for Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui to visit Cornell last June. "For starters...
Second, the country has emerged from three decades of economic isolationism and needs investment, particularly the highways, irrigation systems, schools and hospitals funded by such institutions as the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, which stopped lending to the country under U.S. pressure. No thaw was possible before Suu Kyi was released...