Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immune system's T cells--the linchpins of the body's defensive forces--for anywhere from three to 10 years. Then something, no one knew what, spurred the microbial invader to awaken. In this picture, the AIDS virus spent most of its life hibernating before starting its final, deadly assault...
...denying the scope of the problem. Tuite, who did a ground-breaking Senate study on the topic in 1993, believes soldiers are ill because of widespread allied attacks on Iraq's chemical-weapons factories and depots during the 39-day air war that began Jan. 16, 1991. During that assault, the U.S.-led alliance destroyed 75% of Iraq's chemical-weapons production capability, along with 21 chemical-weapons storage sites. But the Pentagon has said the timing and methods of its pinpoint attacks minimized the spread of the poison bombed by the allies. And it says there were no reports...
This time they didn't come. Nor did the Syrian army appear during a repeat exercise weeks later. But the full-dress rehearsals on the Golan, unprecedented in recent years, show just how nervous Israeli commanders have become about the possibility of a genuine Syrian assault. That danger had been more or less dismissed in the previous five years as the two countries engaged in serious, if fitful, peace talks. Today, once again, Israel sees war as an immediate threat...
...Clinton took a verbal licking, kept on ticking and won by a landslide [ELECTION 96, Nov. 18]. He ran an optimistic campaign focused on the future. Bob Dole ran for the title of Meanest Man in America. The outrage backfired on Dole. Ross Perot ran a super-paranoid blitzkrieg assault. Character assassination and hate politics must not be utilized as tactics to win an election (period). Campaign-finance reform is needed, and campaign-hate reform too. President Clinton will lead America forward into the 21st century with a lot of hope, vision and dreams for a better nation...
...arraignment, Erdohan told the judge that her detainers stripped her naked, then proceeded to sexually assault her and administer electric shock treatment...