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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coca and heroin. Data from U.S. satellites indicate "an explosion" of drug growth inside Colombia over the next couple of years, McCaffery says, and that means more arms and money for the guerrillas. "What we're seeing," the general asserts, "is that when the FARC now wants to ambush a police station, they'll go in with rockets, mortars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Carpet of Cocaine | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...what is known in the talk-show business as an ambush. The Jenny Jones Show brought Jonathan Schmitz on the air in 1995 to be surprised by a "secret crush." When the crush turned out to be a man, Scott Amedure, an unstable Schmitz three days later shot his onetime friend to death. Amedure's family sued the show, and last week it was Jenny Jones that got ambushed--by a $25 million jury verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next on Jenny: Appeal | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

Brown starter Jamie Grillo (3-3) entered thefifth with a comfortable 5-1 lead, supplied by anearly ambush of senior righthander Garett Vail...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Baseball Two Games Up in Rolfe | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...ambush on Capitol Hill may be of the administration's own making. "The testimony of the military commanders on Thursday highlighted just how little long-term thinking has gone into this," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "They made clear that American lives would be put on the line in an operation that has no endgame -- what happens if air strikes can't bring Milosevic to the table?" Whether by design or because of confusion in NATO, Milosevic will be given a grace period to reconsider. But far from showing signs of buckling before the threat of air strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milosevic Unmoved as Clinton Threatens to Strike | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...symbolized one of the main reasons why South Viet Nam, five years ago a new nation with little life expectancy, is still independent and free and getting stronger all the time--to the growing chagrin of Communists in neighboring North Viet Nam." The two Americans who died in the ambush were the first of some 58,000 to die before the hurried American evacuation of Saigon 16 years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War As It Was | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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