Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the fact that U.S. citizens are going into the holiday season being told by their government that they're potentially in danger of being blown to bits on the streets of New York, Washington or Seattle is, in itself, something of a victory for the terrorists. After all, they measure their success in terms of spreading fear rather than damage inflicted. It also turns a spotlight on the shape of America's defenses against unconventional warfare. "One of our key weaknesses in this battle is that we've relied very heavily on electronic intelligence and allowed human intelligence...
Regarding Berislav Marusic's opinion piece "The Croatian George Washington," (Opinion, Dec. 20) there are some rather simple answers to the question, "Why has there been such a cold response from the West [to the death of Croatian president Franjo Tudjman...
...that light, Washington wouldn't be warning its citizens unless there was a credible threat. And, of course, there may be more than one. Law enforcement officials across America have been briefed on the danger of homegrown right-wing terrorists acting out apocalyptic fantasies to coincide with the millennium. After all, the Oklahoma City attack had the U.S. media running profiles of the usual suspects from the Middle East in the hours before the arrest of Tim McVeigh...
Sources: Wall Street Journal, CommScan, AP, ESPN, Washington Post...
They've been portrayed as the Rosenbergs of the '90s, and they're not happy about it. Sylvia and Wen Ho Lee, two Asian-born naturalized Americans, don't appreciate being branded as spies for communist China, and on Monday they filed a lawsuit in Washington, D.C., Circuit Court against the three federal agencies they say irresponsibly ruined their reputations. Wen Ho Lee, in jail pending trial on 59 charges that he compromised sensitive military documents while working at Los Alamos, was the subject of a very public investigation into whether he was the mole who gave China design secrets...