Word: thursdaye
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Bailing out Russia makes almost no financial sense, but it matters a lot politically. That may be why nobody appears overly surprised -- or concerned -? that the country?s parliament, the Duma, on Thursday rejected a key package of economic reforms. The proposed reforms would have been an effort to meet the preconditions for a $4.5 billion IMF loan required to roll over Russia's debts to the international institution. "This was entirely expected," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "It?s a lame-duck Duma voting down conditions agreed to in April by a government that no longer exists...
Shades of postwar Germany? The U.S. and the Russians continue to squabble over who will control which sector of war-torn Kosovo, while the full horror of what transpired there comes to light. This time, however, nobody?s holding their breath for a Nuremberg trial. Britain alleged Thursday that at least 10,000 Kosovars had been massacred in more than 100 separate incidents, as NATO troops uncover scores of mass graves and returning refugees piece together the horrific tales of the victims? last hours. However, although U.S. forces have arrested two suspected war criminals from among retreating Yugoslav forces...
...officials, meanwhile, met their Russian counterparts for a second day in Finland Thursday, hoping to resolve the standoff over Russia?s involvement in the peacekeeping mission. Washington insists on a unified command, and that the Russians not be given their own sector; Moscow continues to demand its own sector and refuses to subordinate its troops to NATO. "They?ll probably reach a compromise agreement by creating some form of parallel command in name that appears to satisfy both concerns," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. Indeed, NATO is concerned that the outflow of Kosovar Serbs will create unstoppable momentum toward...
...your sorrys in a sack, mister. Beijing wasn?t exactly mollified by a senior U.S. diplomat?s explanation and apology for the Belgrade embassy bombing. Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering?s account of how the "tragic mistake" occurred was dismissed Thursday by China?s Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan as "unconvincing and unacceptable." He demanded that Washington come up with something more than the out-of-date-map explanation, and "severely punish" the individuals responsible before Beijing would consider resuming military and trade talks with...
...arrested on a Thursday; bail was posted by Clifford Durr, the white lawyer whose wife had employed Parks as a seamstress. That evening, after talking it over with her mother and husband, Rosa Parks agreed to challenge the constitutionality of Montgomery's segregation laws. During a midnight meeting of the Women's Political Council, 35,000 handbills were mimeographed for distribution to all black schools the next morning. The message was simple...