U.S. FINDS `DIRE STRAITS’ IN MIDEAST
Using language remarkable for its bleakness, a senior Clinton administration official Monday said the Mideast peace process is "in dire straits" after a U.S. mission failed to break a long-standing...
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U.S. MOVES TO TOUGHEN DEAL ON IRAQ
The Clinton administration sought Tuesday to toughen a United Nations deal with Iraq, calling for an "enforcement mechanism" aimed at ensuring military action if Baghdad breaks its latest promise to...
UN EXPLORES VISIT TO IRAQ BY ANNAN
The Clinton administration is discussing with other United Nations members a last-ditch diplomatic mission to Baghdad later this week by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who would lay out the...
CIA CHIEF SAYS IRAQ HIDING MAJOR TOXIC ARMS PROGRAM
The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that Iraq is still hiding a major chemical and biological weapons development program that poses a direct threat to U.S. forces, interests and allies...
U.S. CONSIDERS TEMPTING IRAQ WITH INCREASED AID
In the first sign of an American diplomatic overture to resolve the crisis with Iraq, the Clinton administration is exploring with Russia and France the possibility of expanding humanitarian assistance...
U.S. WANTS POL POT SENT TO INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL
One day after new evidence emerged that Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot is alive and under the control of his former guerrilla comrades, Secretary of State Madeline Albright demanded...
CALLS FOR PUNISHING GENOCIDE GET LOUDER
The century that began with a systematic slaughter of Armenians and was sundered by the Holocaust is reaching its close with the governments of the world still grappling with how...
AMERICAN, PILOTS COUNT DOWN TO SHOWDOWN
American Airlines and its pilots union opened last-ditch contract talks Monday in an effort to avert a strike threatened for Saturday that would idle 90,000 employees and alter travel plans...
ON THE TRAIL OF DEMOCRATS’ FUNDS
At the presidential gala fundraiser that capped last summer's Democratic National Convention in Chicago, some of the party's top fundraisers were listed in the red, white and blue program book....
SAFETY BOARD URGES REDESIGN OF 737 RUDDER
The National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday recommended design changes in the rudder system of the Boeing 737 jet, hoping to prevent crashes similar to two that investigators suspect were...