Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Panetta obviously cannot do much about Paula Jones. If he can tighten up the White House operation and make it more efficient, that might help break the legislative logjam. But not necessarily. One indirect effect of his arrival is likely to be a sharper, more partisan, more anti-Republican tone at the White House. Whether that is really what the Clinton presidency needs is questionable. Nevertheless, the change in tone was evident even last week. The President, who had previously talked sweet bipartisan reason and adaptability on health care, lambasted Dole's proposal as "politics as usual" that threw crumbs...
SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, GERMANY: "The fireman is raising the pressure in the boiler. First Clinton announced he would tighten sanctions, and now several Caribbean and Latin American nations have ((reportedly)) promised support for military intervention...
Negotiators for mainly Tutsi rebels and Hutu government forces met twice without successfully establishing a truce in the two-month-old civil war in Rwanda. The rebels continued to tighten their stranglehold on the capital of Kigali and pushed their assault on Gitarama, where the government has relocated. Meanwhile, the Vatican appealed to the U.N. Security Council to establish a "safe area" -- the same concept tried with so little success in Bosnia -- around a large religious complex offering sanctuary to 38,000 Tutsis...
...airlines tighten frequent-flyer mileage requirements...
...would-be refugees at sea and sending them back as "racist" and a signal that American leaders "don't care." Six members of Congress got themselves arrested on the White House lawn for protesting the refugee policy. The Administration had earlier said it would ask the U.N. to tighten the embargo. And it allowed some 400 Haitian fugitives to land in Florida -- though officials insisted this was a special case, not a reversal of policy. Washington has started looking for a new special envoy to replace Lawrence Pezzullo, whom Aristide's backers distrust. None of these moves was likely either...