Word: airs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when having finished both his education and his clerkship, the young Countryman joined the Air Force, rising to the rank of First Lieutenant during the war. He served until 1946, stationed in the Mediterranean Theater in Italy during the later years of his service...
...air of terror was heavy," he said. "I was sure the whole thing would soon go away...
...air of terror was heavy," he said. "I was sure the whole thing would soon go away...
...resist. With NATO under mounting pressure from China, Russia and even some of its own members to stop bombing Yugoslavia, the Serbian leader announced Monday that he'd ordered some of his troops out of Kosovo and offered to reduce his forces to "peacetime levels" if NATO halts its air campaign. Milosevic is unlikely to withdraw all his forces -- many are involved in daily skirmishes with the Kosovo Liberation Army along the Albanian border -- but any significant retreat will sharply raise pressure on NATO to call off the bombers. "Last week President Clinton said bombing could stop only if there...
...officials (and even Hillary) may be pining for a photo op in the Balkan war zone, they will have to get their snapshots the hard way. When Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott flew in to the Macedonian capital of Skopje a few weeks ago in one of the Air Force's Lockheed C-130's, he got the ride of his life. The problem for potential future visitors: Talbott's plane was "painted," meaning that the Serbian military's antiaircraft system had got the plane in its target sight. Talbott's flight crew immediately began to swoop violently...