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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raids against Yugoslavia. This shows that, at least at this point, the Chinese government was trying its best to establish a stable, long-term and constructive relationship with the U.S. and other major Western powers. It did not wish to see accidental factors cause a deterioration of such an uncertain relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Views Across A Wide Gulf: The Anger Runs Very Deep | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...home with Milosevic's assent or to threaten an invasion without it. The war could succeed faster if the allies risked their own troops more, but political leaders fear the first body bags would destroy the public support they need to keep the confrontation going. But the slow and uncertain progress from 12,000 ft. is eating away at popular approval anyhow. Pit that against the prospect that if the air strikes fail to move Milosevic, ground troops might have to step in, and what's a poor NATO leader to do? Scramble for a diplomatic way out--the faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grounded In Kosovo | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

Instead of fighting for a new building, the council has resigned itself to the idea of finding space in the Houses and other Harvard-owned buildings. And with Epps' retirement, support within the administration for a student center has an uncertain future...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Epps, Council Throw in Towel on Student Center, Seek Alternative Space | 5/21/1999 | See Source »

Smith's interest in the job remains uncertain...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hockey Coach Search Has Not Started, But The Rumors Fly | 5/19/1999 | See Source »

...National Weather Service meteorologists noted a startling accumulation of the supercell thunderstorms that spawn whirlwinds. By 4:45 they had issued their first tornado warning. Starting at 5:00 and continuing for 20 hours, a legion of twisters--more than 40, coming so fast that the exact count is uncertain--scourged the region. One, a behemoth originating near Chickasha, may be historic. Not for the width of its funnel--although at nearly a mile across, that was extraordinary--but a mobile Doppler radar from the University of Oklahoma clocked its peak wind speed at 318 m.p.h., which would make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funnel of Death | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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