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Ironically, Saddam's gambit helped unify the Security Council just as he was making headway in dividing it. Last month the U.S. tried to get the council to ban international travel by Iraqi military and intelligence officials after U.N. inspections chief Richard Butler reported that Iraq was continuing to withhold information on its chemical weapons and missile programs. But France, Russia and China balked at an immediate ban, and the U.S. had to settle for a watered-down threat to block such travel sometime in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STARING DOWN SADDAM | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...Workers at the top-secret Air Force base near Groom Lake were squaring off against the government in court Wednesday in a lawsuit over incidents involving hazardous chemicals ? incidents in which two workers have already died. But President Clinton, claiming executive privilege, has issued an executive order to withhold evidence in the case ? as Commander in Chief, he's worried about top secret information getting vetted in public court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alien Loose in Area 51? | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

Competitors of Toys "R" Us have been slapping the retail giant silly in recent years. Last week the Federal Trade Commission took a whack, ruling that Toys "R" Us had illegally forced such manufacturers as Mattel and Hasbro to withhold their products from warehouse clubs like Costco. The FTC barred Toys "R" Us from blacklisting toymakers for selling to low-price clubs. The company says it will appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOUGH GUYS IN THE TOY DEPT. | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...surgeons who are queasy about operating without a transfusion backup, the operating field is not black and white. The jury is still out on whether it is safe to withhold blood, and large-scale clinical trials have yet to be performed. Last year an nih-funded study tried to get some answers. Dr. Jeffrey Carson, chief of the division of general internal medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J., studied records of 1,950 bloodless-surgery patients in an effort to determine the relationship between patients' hemoglobin levels and the risk of dying or developing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BLOODLESS SURGERY | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

Danny DeVito is annoying. I won't withhold the good news that his character dies over the course of the film-because you might be wondering whether or not he does-and advance notice of happy occurrences makes life a little sweeter...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men in Blue: Slick Film Goes Behind Closed Doors | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

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