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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bomb; the CIA says the odds are "better than even" that he has. Last week he gave signs that he might be gathering plutonium to produce five others, and even more when a new and larger reactor begins operating next year. In that case, would Clinton use force to uphold the policy of nuclear nonproliferation, or would North Korea resort to war to preserve its right to have the Bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Down the Risky Path | 6/13/1994 | See Source »

...recent decision by the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) to uphold its long-standing ban of trucks on Memorial Drive could end any hope for keeping the Stop & Shop grocery store in Cambridge...

Author: By Margaret Isa, | Title: On Memorial Drive, Shopping May Stop for Good | 5/25/1994 | See Source »

...full 60 percent of those casting ballots voted to rescind the council's $10 fee hike, which was passed in March. Just 40 percent wanted to uphold the council decision...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Students Reject U.C. Fee Hike, Election Structure | 5/13/1994 | See Source »

...often treated as a kind of bumbling equerry. At the end of the first day of negotiations for a new constitution in 1991, Mandela gave De Klerk a withering dressing down: "Even the head of an illegitimate, discredited minority regime, as his is, has certain moral standards to uphold." His wrath is cold, not hot; he does not explode at his foes, he freezes them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nelson Mandela: The Making of a Leader | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...council has a duty to uphold its own bylaws. And the failure to recall Liston last Sunday indicates that most members of the council lack even a basic respect for their own constitution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liston: It's Time For Him to Go | 5/5/1994 | See Source »

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