Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though it sounds as though you may never want to leave town, the nation's capital is just 75 miles away. Chestertown is free of Washington's traffic and tempo but close enough that the Cantors go often to visit the Smithsonian museums. They also travel the 70 miles to Baltimore to visit its renowned aquarium...
...show, produced in partnership with American Century Investments, will travel to the Newseum in New York City (June through September); the Reagan Federal Building in Washington (October through December); the Bush Library in College Station, Texas (April through June 2000); the Johnson Library in Austin, Texas (July through September 2000); and the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (October through December 2000). Starting next week, you can visit parts of it on the Web at www.presidentsonline.com...
...happens. Fighting last week threatened to undermine those rebels who back the deal. And the delay has given Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic a chance to deploy 4,500 additional soldiers, about 60 tanks and other heavy armor around Kosovo. In Washington there was worry that the troops looked like a cocked fist. As if peace needed another bad omen, the talks are set to restart on March 15--the infamous ides of March. Despite that, hope remains that the next two weeks will give Surroi and his fellow delegates the chance they need to praise peace in Kosovo...
Another day, another fusillade of TNT falls on Iraq. Is this going anywhere? Only if we're lucky. "Despite claims about a prospective coup against Saddam, this is something Washington can hope for but not plan," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Persistent bombing takes a psychological toll on Saddam's regime, but it's like trying to cut down a tree with sandpaper -- not impossible, but it'll take a long time...
Even as U.S. planes attacked air-defense sites in northern Iraq Monday, Defense Secretary William Cohen toured the Gulf states hoping to maintain support for Washington's strategy. "There's a lot of skepticism here about what the U.S. is doing," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "Everyone in the region wants to get rid of Saddam, but they don't want to maintain an indefinite bombing campaign." Despite weekend press reports of U.S. officials nodding and winking about coup prospects, MacLeod is skeptical. "The assassination, quite possibly by the regime, of a Shi'ite cleric...