Word: wright
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BALKAN PEACE TALKS BEGAN last Wednesday near Dayton, Ohio, the mood in the Hope Hotel at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was downright frosty. When U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher stood and urged the Balkan leaders to shake hands, they did so in the most perfunctory manner imaginable: Croatia's Franjo Tudjman would not look Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic in the eye; Bosnia's Alija Izetbegovic refused to smile at Tudjman; Milosevic and Izetbegovic stared past each other. Even worse, after the press was dismissed, each man delivered a blunt statement accusing the others of human-rights abuses...
...outcome is, to put it most mildly, not assured. All the arrangements for the so-called proximity conference, at which the U.S. will play both host and mediator, are based on a perceived necessity to contain the three Presidents' impulses to devilry. The meeting is being held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, largely because it is a site where the men can be held in near isolation. There they will be unable to hop a taxi to a TV studio and in a few minutes be on camera denouncing one another, as they might in Washington...
THERE IS ONE RECOURSE FOR THOSE WHO think O.J. got away with murder: we can refuse to finance his return to society. I didn't serve on the jury, but I'm casting my vote now--with my wallet. Whatever O.J. is selling, I'm not buying. KATHRYN WRIGHT STRAND, Alpharetta, Georgia...
...compliance" on the region's fragile cease-fire. It was his final trip before three-way peace talks, refereed by the U.S., kick off Oct. 31 in Dayton, Ohio. While those negotiations promise to be rancorous, the Presidents of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia are eventually expected to emerge from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base with an agreement. And soon thereafter, 20,000 U.S. soldiers will be en route to blood-soaked Bosnia...
...opportunity to learn," said Bill Wright-Swadel, Director of OCS. "[Students] can learn what [the corporations] are doing, what the field is like, what specific opportunities they are looking for Harvard people to fill...