Word: airs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practice is for Indian planes to force intruders to identify themselves, order them out of the area, and force them to land if they don?t comply," says Rahman. "They?re only supposed to shoot down a plane once all those steps have been taken. Being a very professional air force, this is unlikely to have been the action of a trigger-happy pilot ? orders would have likely come from above, and that raises questions about what lay behind this incident." But right now, the tense atmosphere between the two countries may preclude an early answer...
...current heat wave, the National Weather Service says there won't be much relief until late August. And from Joe Gilbo's perch high in the Capitol, the hot air may be felt for much longer than that...
...riot needs no reason at all. It was hard to put one's finger on what exactly touched off the messy end last week of Woodstock '99, the three-day rock festival held in sweltering heat on an inhospitable decommissioned Air Force base in upstate New York. The overflowing Port-o-Sans that no one bothered to empty? The formidable mounds of garbage that no one collected? The rip-off prices--$4 for a bottle of water, $7.50 for a chicken sandwich? In retrospect, it seems odd that rock fans would travel halfway across the country...
TRANSFERRED. AIR FORCE GENERAL JOSEPH RALSTON, 55, to NATO commander, from his current post as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In May, Ralston will replace Army General Wesley Clark, who ran NATO's war against Yugoslavia...
...only remnants of Kelly's past that survive his ideological overhaul and self-exile from his family are his relationship with his childhood "brother," a Puerto Rican Fresh Air Fund kid named Felix, and their shared devotion to theft. As a Miracle mover, Kelly pockets small valuables and gives them to Luz, his girlfriend and fellow criminal, or buys food for the neighborhood homeless. Still, he never manages to feel "full." He finds he can't change the world or heal his own heart with petty crime. His eventual shift into large-scale art theft fails to solve this central...