Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing's definitely for sure. The stars sure do come out for Christmas. Tom Cruise in Magnolia, Jodie Foster, Robin Williams, Denzel Washington, Pacino, Carrey, Damon, Paltrow, Diaz, Hanks, Jewel...
...embassy in Belgrade: $28 million. Repairing U.S. relations with China over the matter: Priceless. At least that's what the Clinton administration hopes after agreeing to pay China $28 million in compensation for inadvertently wrecking the country's Belgrade embassy during the Kosovo conflict. In return, Beijing will pay Washington $2.87 million for damage to the U.S. embassy during the ensuing protests in China's capital. "Bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was a terrible mistake that dramatically set back relations with Beijing and fueled China's paranoia about Washington's intentions," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The challenge...
...they didn't have the basis of a deal. But demons in the details may keep the Jewish state and its most implacable foe from reaching a speedy deal. Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Sharaa settled into a getting-to-know-you session in Washington Wednesday, after the U.S. brought them together despite Israel's refusal of Syria's precondition that it publicly commit to withdrawing from the Golan Heights. "Syria's President Hafez Assad obviously got what he needed to hear to restart talks," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "The essence...
...spell trouble for Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement. The group, which included Jordanians, an Iraqi and an Algerian, was reportedly trained in Bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan, and had some nasty plans for the New Year - to attack U.S. and Israeli targets in Jordan. The revelations follow Washington's warning to the Taliban on Tuesday that they would be held responsible for any Bin Laden attacks on U.S. targets. The Taliban continues to harbor the terrorist mastermind, despite U.N. sanctions and constant U.S. pressure to expel him. But the movement's insistence that they've forbidden Bin Laden from...
...Nobody knows exactly what the U.S. is planning to do if there are Bin Laden strikes, but presumably they're considering military options," says TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi. The U.S. fired cruise missiles at Bin Laden's training camps near Kandahar in Afghanistan after last year's terrorist attacks on U.S. embassies in East Africa. The U.S. has patiently cajoled the Taliban, via direct talks as well as through the movement's traditional backers in Pakistan and Afghanistan, to hand over Bin Laden, but to no avail. "The Taliban occasionally plays nice, but only in order...