Word: travels
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...horse is only days away from his own travel to Dubai, which is a long way from South Dakota, where Mott grew up as the son of a veterinarian. "I located it on the globe the other day," says the 42-year-old trainer, though in truth he has been hard at work on the logistics of the trip for months. He knows that Dubai's track surface is like Belmont's, that the hay there is from Washington State, and that the journey for Cigar will take 18 to 20 hours, stall to stall, counting a refueling layover...
...seriously interfere with the independent counsel's ongoing investigation." In 1993, Watkins told the General Accounting Office that an evaluation done by a private accounting firm evaluation inspired the firings. However, in a memo that appeared in January, Watkins claimed that it was Mrs. Clinton who demanded that the travel office staff be dismissed. He writes, we ... knew that there would be hell to pay if ... we failed" to remove the travel office employees "in conformity with the first lady's wishes." Counsel Starr was already investigating Watkins' statements concerning the travel office in his inquiry into the suicide...
...linked continued concessions to the Palestinian Authority's success in breaking the Islamists. He has also indefinitely sealed Israel's borders with the West Bank and Gaza Strip--a measure that costs Palestinians $1.2 million daily in lost earnings. With few exceptions, P.A. officials, including Arafat, were forbidden to travel into Israel or through it to get between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. "Arafat is now a prisoner in Gaza," says an Israeli Defense Ministry official. "He can't get to the West Bank even with a helicopter." Peres' most potent means of coercing Arafat was the threat...
Meanwhile, in the areas of the West Bank still under Israeli rule, the occupation authorities have launched a crackdown. Palestinian residents were forbidden to travel outside their hometowns. In the village of Burqa and the refugee camp of El Fawwar, where three of the four bombers lived, troops herded together every man and teenage boy and forced them to sit on the ground awaiting questioning. All male relatives of the bombers, down to and including first cousins, were detained for interrogation. The Israelis renewed an old and widely criticized practice of sealing the family homes of terrorists in preparation...
...going to take those children." But when those remarks provoked public outrage and angry phone calls, Loretta stepped back. "I don't want to take them out of their home," she told TIME. "I just want to be able to see them on the weekends, to travel with them to see my parents and their cousins...