Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week casts doubt on each of those assertions. Amid dozens of the documented contacts between the Clintons and McDougals on Whitewater-related issues, a 1981 letter sent by Hillary Clinton to Jim McDougal was especially ironic. "If Reaganomics works at all," wrote Mrs. Clinton, "Whitewater could become the western hemisphere's Mecca...
Reaction to Croatia's offensive initially split the allies. France and Britain condemned the assault, while the U.S. and Germany all but applauded it. By last week, however, each of the Western powers appeared to understand that an opportunity was at hand, and seemed eager to ensure that it not be squandered. With these forces at work, Clinton sent National Security Advisor Anthony Lake to London, Paris and Bonn (Spain, Italy and Russia were later added to the itinerary) with the new plan in his briefcase. Lake was accompanied by Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Peter Tarnoff...
...lead. The leaders who had assumed the role of the political prophets from my childhood, however, had nothing to say. No one was creating direction. President Clinton vacillated between bellicose threats of NATO air-strikes, as the United Nations shrank under the pressure of the Serbian army. The Western world deplored the actions of the Serbian army as barbaric, but it could not formulate a coherent policy. As the despotic, maniacal Serbian General Ratko Mladic surrounds, strangles and slaughters one U.N. "safe area" after another, Western leaders quibbled...
More than 35 years after the bathyscaphe Trieste took two men, for the first and last time, 35,800 ft. down to the deepest spot in the world--the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep just off Guam in the western Pacific--undersea adventurers are preparing to go back. Last March a Japanese robot scouted a tiny section of the bottom of the 1,584-mile-long crevasse and sent back the first real-time video images of deepest-sea life. And in laboratories around the world, engineers are hard at work on an armada of sophisticated craft designed to explore...
...reel world, Western cinephiles have a three-China policy. They embrace mainland dramas by artists like Chen and Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern). They are beguiled by the Taiwanese domestic comedies of Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) and impressed by the daunting meditations of Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Good Men Good Women). And they get their giddy thrills from the wild Hong Kong action films featuring Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat, who are two of the world's top movie stars. Chinese pictures cannily appeal to audiences of every brow--high, middle...