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...happening. The Pentagon, in its sternest tones, announced that 4,000 U.S. troops would immediately be dispatched to Kuwait to beef up forces already in the area. The carrier U.S.S. George Washington and a clutch of cruise missile-carrying warships were moved into the Persian Gulf. Secretary of State Warren Christopher added a Kuwait stop to his Middle East tour this week to reaffirm U.S. support for the beleaguered emirate. And to avoid the sort of misunderstandings that may have led to the Gulf War, Bill Clinton issued a clear warning to Saddam: "It would be a grave error...
Abrahams started the annual Ig Nobel ceremony in 1991 with the support of Warren Seamans, director of the MIT museum. The prizes are a legacy from the estate of the legendary Ignatius ("Ig") Nobel, the inventor of excelsior (packing material) and co-inventor of soda...
...Cabinet ministers fired all employees hired under the junta's civilian figurehead government and took over ministry offices. Aristide, meanwhile, plans to return to Haiti in grand style Saturday, with three planes stuffed with so many guests that the State Department is complaining. In addition to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the party includes the Rev. Jesse Jackson, TransAfrica director Randall Robinson, the Congressional Black Caucus and a snowballing number of Haitian diaspora members...
That's why he receives a visit from Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray, who hires him to spy on her husband, the chief engineer of Warren Power, a company which runs the water supply into the city and surrounding areas from an outlying reservoir. A new city plan proposes the building of a dam to allow more irrigation and Mulwray opposes the plan on physical principles, a view which will soon prove fatal. The thematic importance of water escalates with the drought that the region currently suffers. Water is literally life and death in Los Angeles, and to a ruthless opportunist...
...Clinton, the idea would have an obvious two-for-the-price-of-one appeal: harnessing Powell's popularity to the Administration's floundering foreign policy while heading off a potentially dangerous 1996 presidential rival. Warren Christopher, however, shows no signs of stepping aside, and Clinton would be reluctant to push him out. Though Powell is said to like Clinton -- despite "doubts about some of his habits," as one close friend puts it -- he would have little to gain by tying himself to an unpopular Administration. Powell's spokesman, Bill Smullen, says that the general is preoccupied writing his memoirs...