Word: thursdaye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday, 8:30 p.m., Belgrade. Holbrooke has returned to meet with Milosevic, but yesterday's chaotic events have shaken him. At this point, Kosovo remains a low-intensity struggle, but Holbrooke fears it will explode into real conflict. Provocations are threatening at the roadblocks lining the main highway running west from Pristina, and the mission has contracted to clearing two checkpoints, one belonging to the K.L.A., the other to the Serbs. Holbrooke pleads with Milosevic to hold off from attacking the Kosovar roadblocks, but the Serb is noncommittal. "We managed to stop a war in Bosnia," Holbrooke reminds...
Rumschpringes -- the "wild oats" interludes giving teenagers latitude to party before they submit to the religious strictures of the adult community -- have become the source of a mortal threat to the culture of Pennsylvania's Amish community. Abner King Stoltzfus, 23, and Abner Stoltzfus, 24 (not related) Thursday became the first Amish people ever to be arraigned on narcotics charges, after they allegedly collaborated with members of the Pagans biker gang to deal cocaine and methamphetamine at barn dances for rumschpringing Amish kids. TIME correpondent Nadya Labi notes that while the teenage time out from the conservative Amish culture...
Talk about feeling the burn. Reubenesque users of a heating pad-style weight-loss device are getting scorched -- literally -- when the product, wrapped around their waist, arm or leg, bursts into flames, according to the FDA, which issued a warning Thursday about the pads...
Tokyo can smell the coffee. Being left off President Clinton's China itinerary appears to have roused the Hashimoto government into finally doing something about its failing economy. Tokyo Thursday unveiled a plan to take control of the country's failed banks and start shutting them down -- a course of action that the U.S. has been pushing urgently. "Our government has been telling Japan they have to get rid of the bad banks to let the good ones prosper," says TIME business correspondent Daniel Kadlec. "Without banks lending money, there can be no economic activity, and Japanese banks haven...
WASHINGTON: Well, it's official: Dead men tell no tales, not even to Ken Starr. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that notes of a conversation Vince Foster had with his lawyer nine days before his suicide will remain sealed under attorney-client privilege. Although the decision leaves Starr without some potentially juicy evidence, lawyers everywhere were deeply relieved...