Word: airs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...considering sending nonlethal aid such as food, uniforms and communications equipment, Administration sources tell TIME. And while Washington is still shying away from directly arming the K.L.A., a senior Administration official admitted a fortnight ago for the first time that "we're in some respects now the K.L.A.'s air force...
What's at stake here is the principle that aggression doesn't pay, that ethnic cleansing cannot be permitted." The troops gathered in a hangar at Spangdahlem air base in Germany cheer. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, standing in front of an F-16, is explaining the war in Kosovo to them. It is, to her, a defining mission for America in the post-cold war world. It is also, for someone who had to flee Hitler, then Stalin, as a child, a very personal mission. As President Clinton proclaims when she is finished, "Secretary Albright, thank you for being...
...madness that drove some in Los Angeles to camp outside of the Mann's Chinese Theater for three weeks, or which inspired international fans to fly to the United States next week just so that they can see it before it opens abroad in July, the excitement in the air is contagious. My only hope is that all the hype has not constructed a reputation for "The Phantom Menace" that it cannot possibly live up to. The trilogy wasn't great because it was popular or because it made a lot of money; ticket sales could make "Titanic" the highest...
...obsession doesn't stop there. At the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in Washington D.C., Star Wars fans can view a photo gallery of "mythic images" from the series. Thousands of Internet sites have been established which offer everything from photos to sound bites to detailed summaries of characters and plotlines. Microsoft's home Web page, the first thing every single Internet Explorer user sees when logging on, has even included a new "Star Wars Guide," placed strategically at the top of the page next to links for stock quotes and maps. Visitors can see how much time is left...
...small, mobile ICBM called the Dong Feng-31, expected to be ready for deployment as early as 2002 or 2003. "The DF-31 ICBM will give China a major strike capability that will be difficult to counterattack at any stage of its operation," a 1996 Air Force intelligence report stated. And they got its brains, or at least some of them, from...