Word: westing
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...spent eight months in solitary confinement for criticizing the clerics' failure to abide by democratic practices set down by the nation's 1979 constitution. Yet he has remained a leading strategist in Khatami's new Participation Party and is one of the architects of Iranian detente with the West. In 1998, ignoring the howls of the hard-liners, Abdi traveled to Paris and met with former hostage Barry Rosen, achieving a reconciliation of sorts. A sign of Abdi's influence: last summer's student riots began with a protest against the closing of his newspaper, Salam, by conservative-controlled courts...
Then there was Omar Bongo, another former client, who has been the President of the oil-rich West African nation of Gabon since 1967. When Citi belatedly got around to working up his customer profile, officials were at a loss to explain the origin of more than $100 million held in Bongo's accounts. Then a helpful Bongo subordinate told the bank that the President regularly receives 8.5% of the country's budget as an allowance. Bank officials accepted this explanation, although no such provision existed in Gabon's budget...
...fact, nearly a fifth of all deliveries were immediately followed by the operation, which takes 15 min. and can often piggyback on the same epidural painkiller used during labor. So what changed? Well, South Valley became St. Louise Regional Health Center, and the hospital's new owner--Catholic Healthcare West--required the newly configured hospital to abide by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, a set of 70 regulations issued by Roman Catholic bishops...
...Louise's owners are holding their ground. Carol Bayley, director of medical ethics for Catholic Healthcare West, argues that the deal was not a merger. "We've bought the building, and St. Louise, the surviving hospital, is taking over." But the hard-line stance could backfire. Last year in Manchester, N.H., the Catholic Medical Center, which had recently merged with another local hospital, refused to perform an emergency abortion on a woman in danger of prematurely delivering a 14-week fetus--even though her doctor had determined that she was at risk for a lethal infection. The incident generated...
...summit of the 54-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which will be attended by President Clinton. "Western pressure may actually stiffen the resolve of the generals to fight on," says Meier. "The last thing they want is to be seen to be caving into the West." But some in the military hierarchy are also wary of being caught in the potential quagmire of a guerrilla war in a Chechen winter. If anything, though, that fear may propel them to accelerate the timetable of their Chechnya campaign. So the question may become not whether the Russians plan...