Word: ditherer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Meanwhile, Jordan continued to dither. Iraqi oil was still being trucked into the country in return for shipments of Jordanian goods. While King Hussein has said his country would abide by the sanctions, it has yet to comply. Jordan did close its borders briefly -- to refugees from the gulf. Its facilities have been overwhelmed by the 210,000 who have escaped so far; most of them remained in the country, with little food, water or money, because of - a shortage of outgoing boats and planes. After the U.S. and the European Community agreed to rush emergency food, medicine and clothes...
...ways large and small, the two Germanys are being united. Not by law, not by treaty, not by politicians: what is happening is happening from the bottom up. Silence and suspicion have been replaced by traffic jams and love affairs. While the allies talk of treaty commitments and politicians dither over the touchy issue of unification, Germans East and West are playing soccer together, going shopping together, drinking beer together, dancing together and, oddly, breeding rabbits together. "Don't laugh," says Arnold Friedrich, the mayor of Modlareuth, a divided border town near Hof. "There are rabbit strains over there that...