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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political world, however, is not for everyone. According to Edley, many academics are not familiar enough with the realities of Washington to become effective policy advisers...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plank by Plank, Scholars Build Party Platforms | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...said he was impressed by expertise of others on the panel at a recent briefing in Washington...

Author: By Rachel V. Zabarkes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Will Study U.S. War Conduct | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...Public Affairs Council, a U.S.-based nonprofit group, appears to be connecting dots of its own, meanwhile. The organization wrote to the Department of Defense Wednesday, urging full public disclosure over the revelation that 33 Egyptian military officers had been aboard Flight 990. The Pentagon has said Cairo asked Washington to withhold details about the Egyptians aboard the plane pending notification of next of kin, but Arab newspapers have alleged the personnel may have been training in the U.S. "The facts of this case are not as important as the impression that our government is attempting to conceal the facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radar Data Provides a Clue, but Not an Answer | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...would lift sanctions against Yugoslavia if the country holds free and fair elections - even if they result in a Milosevic victory. That's a retreat from the more extreme U.S. position that had insisted sanctions would remain in place until Milosevic is ousted - through elections or not - and brings Washington more into line with the thinking of European NATO members and the Serbian opposition. "Most important," says TIME Washington correspondent Barry Hillenbrand, "the policy shift makes sense; the U.S. hardly wants to be responsible for a humanitarian tragedy in which thousands of people freeze to death because they failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the U.S. Has Softened on Serbia | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...Washington had previously been skeptical of European initiatives, such as the plan to provide heating oil to cities controlled by the opposition, but now appears to have come around to a more subtle approach. "The blanket isolation of Serbia was only ever going to freeze the situation Iraq-style and actually consolidate Milosevic's grip on power," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The new approach gives the opposition much greater leverage - by dangling an end to sanctions - to force a free and fair election. And if the opposition doesn't participate in an election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the U.S. Has Softened on Serbia | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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