Word: waller
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...Douglas Waller. With reporting by Jaime A. FlorCruz/Beijing and Frank Gibney/Tokyo
...maiden voyage carried just 40 refugees from Kisangani to their destination in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, Richardson's first priority will be to coax some cooperation out of Kabila -- and perhaps an extension. "This will be an important test of his diplomatic skills," says TIME's Douglas Waller, "because it's a much more complicated situation than the hostage negotiations Richardson has pulled off in the past. Kabila has proved himself quite obstreperous." More difficult, Waller notes, will be bringing Kabila and president Mobutu, with whom he will meet Tuesday, to a negotiated peace. "Kabila has nothing to gain...
...destruction of existing stockpiles over the next decade. Many Republicans fear signing such a pact would leave America weak as countries around the world secretly build chemical weapons. But failure to pass the treaty would be seen as a serious setback for U.S. foreign policy, notes TIME's Doug Waller. "The U.S. would join pariah states like Iraq, Iran and North Korea that have refused to ratify." Signed by 164 nations thus far, and ratified by 75, the pact will take effect April 29 regardless of whether it is ratified...
...journalists and government officials, hired a university professor to guide it through classics like The Iliad that members may have, well, skimmed as undergraduates. Virginia Valentine, a liaison for Denver's Tattered Cover stores, finds that the book clubs' mainstays are women and that they are reading everything from Waller to Wharton. "A lot of young women feel frustrated that there isn't the intellectual outlet they had in college. I see young women when they're about...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Jesse Helms didn?t come cheap. TIME?s Doug Waller reports that Helms agreed to stop blocking the chemical weapons treaty from coming to a Senate floor vote only when the White House pledged to reorganize the State Department. "It was a trade. Neither side wants to admit it, because Helms doesn't want to be perceived as selling out his opposition to the chemical weapons convention for his pet rock of reorganizing the State Department, while the Administration doesn't want to be perceived as reorganizing the State Department just to satisfy Helms and get a treaty...