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And the NYT seems thrilled to relate that the deal was first broached over duck and oysters beside the pool at the Four Seasons Hotel.
There's other news today: The NYT reports that the Communists are threatening Boris Yeltsin with impeachment if he renominates Viktor Chernomyrdin to be his prime minister (a story first broached earlier in the week by the LAT ); the WP and NYT report that government security guards in Beijing brutally hauled away the wife of a jailed dissident to keep her from delivering a letter of protest to the visiting U.N. commissioner on human rights.
There is no doubt that family names often provide a source of amusement, and some well-known place names persist in their references to things and activities otherwise rarely broached in polite conversation--you know, those places in Pennsylvania.
A story on the LAT front reports further on the increasing difficulties with U.S. intelligence's explanation for why that Sudanese plant must have been producing components for nerve gas (difficulties first broached last week by the NYT ). According to the LAT , German and British officials have quietly expressed the belief that possibly pharmaceutical products were made there.
In a 1995 encyclical, John Paul II broached the possibility that, in the interests of Christian unity, he or his successors might "find a way of exercising the [papal] primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation."