Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Guatemala station in the early 1990s always had a reputation for aggressive and hard-drinking case officers who ignored not only the human-rights abuses of Guatemalan officers on the agency's payroll but also the directives of U.S. diplomats in the embassy there. At times the station could even be independent of its own agency. TIME has learned that last year the CIA's inspector general dispatched a team to Guatemala to investigate allegations that the agency's station chief failed to pass along warnings of an assassination plot that was eventually carried out--unsuccessfully--against a local official...
Mason also said that the 1990s has been a time of "highs and lows" for the gay movement...
...assemblage of disparate fanatics pursuing unique or mysterious agendas, with only the capacity for random violence in common. While governments have them under fairly good control and international terrorist incidents are relatively few (321 last year, down from 432 in 1933), it looks to the experts as if the 1990s rise of apocalyptic sects and Islamic extremism has merged with the increasingly easy availability of chemical and biological weapons that can kill thousands in an attack. The potential for random murder and catastrophic governmental disruption lies within reach of small, unsophisticated and irresponsible groups of true believers. "Nightmares are coming...
...these youthful concerns about the dignity of baseball did not hold much corn when the owners were willing to pay the players lots of money. Baseball attendance has increased throughout the 1980s and early 1990s and the game, at least in raw, unsentimental, cash-generated terms, was more popular than ever the day before this current strike. (August 18, 1994, to be exact...
...course, one cannot expect Bill Clinton in the 1990s to accomplish as much. Nevertheless, he can still benefit from Truman's common-sense approach to the problems at hard...