Word: westing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) arrested Kenneth Daly of West Dublin, Ireland on Mass. Ave. for assault and battery on a police officer...
...Another scene-stealing pair are the Fodors (yes, the ones of travel book fame), a British couple on a mission to write a guidebook about the American West who find themselves staying in Lank's so-called hotel. As Eugene Fodor, Jonathan Dinerstein '01 is ideally cast, complimented by first-year Laura Durso in the role of Patricia Fodor. The Fodors add yet another comic twist to the plot and capture every scene in which they appear...
...binding arbitration of the International Court of Justice at the Hague in its long-running dispute with Greece over Cyprus. "This is good news for the U.S. because Turkey is NATO's front line in relation to Russia and the Caucasus, and drawing them closer to Europe cements the West's security alliance with Ankara," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...
...come around to the European approach, emphasizing the need to have monitors in there." The danger now, though, is that UNSCOM (the United Nations Special Commission) gets replaced with a tamer and less confrontational monitoring body. "UNSCOM's combativeness eventually created political problems for both the Iraqis and the West," says Dowell. "There may be a temptation to avoid confrontation in a future monitoring system. And that's potentially a major problem, because the worst-case scenario would be a toothless monitoring system that creates a false sense of security." In other words, we're back at square...
...looks like a dry run to test Western resolve to defend the territory's pro-Western government. Although Yugoslavian forces backed down early Thursday, reopening the airport amid threats from NATO, the move may be a foretaste of a crisis to come. "Milosevic was clearly trying to test the West's commitment to defend Montenegro," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "His quick withdrawal suggests that he was surprised by NATO's prompt reaction. But while it may be delayed, confrontation in Montenegro looks inevitable...