Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extraordinary retrospective shows at the National Gallery in Washington. But because the Republicans' zeal to pressure Bill Clinton into signing their balanced-budget bill has closed the National Gallery (along with the whole Smithsonian complex, and much else), nobody can see Homer in Washington, though the show will travel to Boston in February and New York City in June...
...Leary defends the foreign travel as a way to stimulate business for U.S. energy companies. She contends that her G.O.P. critics are motivated by their failure to shut down her department: "If you can't attack us on substance, you attack the leader." So far, the White House has supported O'Leary, but senior officials predict that more bad headlines could cost...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Questioned Friday about Hillary Clinton's alleged involvement in firing seven White House travel employees and the two-year delay in releasing former aide David Watkins' written account of the episode, White House spokesman Mike McCurry crisply replied, "Apparently previous searches were not exhaustive enough." The White House, notes TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum, is feeling the heat as multiple investigations gain momentum. "This is one in a series of issues in which the First Lady and her associates are embroiled, and many more questions will be raised." Rep. William Clinger, chairman of the House committee that obtained...
...radio, Hamas activists began chanting anti-Israeli slogans and pledged a revenge killing. "Yassir Arafat reportedly summoned high ranking officials to discuss the consequences of the killing and may cancel his upcoming trip to Jerusalem as a result," Hamad says. The Israeli government has advised Israelis not to travel to Palestinian autonomous areas for fear of Islamic attacks. "Most Palestinians agree," Hamad concludes, "that Ayyash's murder will aggravate tensions in Gaza and West Bank and could result in the boycotting of upcoming elections...
...lawsuit concerning the 1985 slaying of an American aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton gave Arafat until January 12 to give his deposition, and said the PLO could be held liable if he does not cooperate in the suit. A New Jersey travel agency filed the lawsuit, which blames a PLO faction for the 3-day hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound elderly man, whom terrorists threw into the sea off Egypt. PLO lawyers said that an Arafat deposition was impossible because of "constant demands...