Word: requesting
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...heated Security Council debate by producing satellite photographs that disproved Moscow's denials that missiles had been stationed in Cuba. Secretary of State Colin Powell hopes to produce a similar effect when he presents U.S. evidence against Iraq at a special session of the Security Council convened at U.S. request next Wednesday...
...that most officials hadn't yet been issued their White House telephone extensions. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback frantically dialed cell-phone numbers from the rally's stage beneath the Washington Monument. When he finally reached Tim Goeglein of the Office of Public Liaison, Brownback put his request for a show of support bluntly: "If you're going to take this position, now's the time to announce." Less than an hour later, it was Brownback's cell phone that rang. In his first reversal of Clinton Administration policy, the new President--who had downplayed abortion during his campaign--said...
...film, tentatively entitled Travelers and Magicians, wasn't sufficient to pay the $200 daily tariffs Bhutan imposes on tourists. But Khyentse Norbu proved a persuasive negotiator. In a country where 20% of the population are monks or nuns, karma is taken seriously and no one likes to refuse a request made by a rinpoche of Khyentse Norbu's rank. His American and Australian production unit received permission to enter the country for free, and shooting proceeded from September until late November...
...started e-mailing and calling law schools in London under urgent request, trying to get accommodated as a student,” he says. “Life wasn’t that much...
...After hearing from chief inspector Hans Blix on January 27, the Council is likely to respond favorably to his request for more time and ask him to report again in February. That may increase the inclination of administration hawks to simply discard the UN process Washington initiated last September, and march on Baghdad without UN authorization. Blair, for his part, will likely be trying to persuade Bush against such a course, in the belief that inspections assisted by Western intelligence are certain to, sooner or later, make an incontrovertible case for war. But the deployment of a massive invasion armada...