Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton Administration, which fought so hard for NAFTA and has bailed out Mexico by issuing loan guarantees that will cost the U.S. $20 billion if Mexico defaults. "Mexico is not a stable country right now," says Indiana Republican Congressman Dan Burton, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee. "It's almost, although not quite, a narco-democracy...
...rural compounds, reportedly confessed he was among the 10 Aum operatives who had placed sarin on the trains. The order, he said, came specifically from Asahara. The third big catch was Yoshihiro Inoue, 25, who is suspected of organizing the attack. Police caught him in western Tokyo last week and discovered bombmaking explosives in his car, and maps and timetables for the city's subway system at his hideout...
...historians an enormous amount about ancient Egypt during the reign of its most important king. "Egyptians do not call him Ramesses II," Sabry Abd El Aziz, director of antiquities for the Qurna region, told TIME correspondent Lara Marlowe last week, as she and photographer Barry Iverson became the first Western journalists to enter the tomb since the new discoveries were announced. "We call him Ramesses al-Akbar-Ramesses the Greatest...
...discovered even in this most-explored of Egypt's archaeological sites. Notes the antiquities department's Abd El Aziz: "We still haven't found the tombs of Amenhotep I or Ramesses VIII," he says. "We have 62 tombs in the Valley of the Kings, but in the Western Valley, which runs perpendicular to it, we have discovered only two tombs...
...Motorin returned to Moscow. Six months later, Ames handed over his identity, and the agent was doomed. A Soviet court that heard the evidence against Motorin said he had received $20,000 from the FBI, citing his purchase of a water bed as proof of his Western decadence. Soon after, he was shot...