Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York 8, Atlanta...
...dream fulfilled at taxpayer expense, a privilege denied the rest of us. The pursuit of happiness does not carry with it the requirement of government funding. Don't insult our intelligence by pretending Glenn's voyage into space is good science instead of a mere joyride. GARY ABBOTT Atlanta...
...family of Martin Luther King Jr., a sliver of satisfaction: Attorney General Janet Reno announced Wednesday she will reopen the investigation of the assassination of the civil rights leader in the hopes of answering the 30-year-old question: Did James Earl Ray act alone? But TIME Atlanta bureau chief Sylvester Monroe says that because of the investigation's limited scope -- only new evidence and witnesses allowed -- the chance of obtaining more satisfying answers are slim...
...usually obvious, a bloody form of bargaining, and the perpetrators trumpeted their responsibility; the message got across only if it was signed. But more recent practitioners, like the men who leveled an American military barracks in Saudi Arabia two years ago or set off a bomb at the Atlanta Olympic Games, rarely call in with their names or seek a discernible result. Theirs may be acts of recruitment to win adherents to some fanatic's cause, or of a secret vengeance. Above all, the anonymous blasts from the blue are terror for terror's sake, intended to sow fear...
...Atlanta Olympic Games, Irish swimmer MICHELLE SMITH DE BRUIN won three gold medals and became a national hero, brushing aside poolside murmurs that her sudden triumph at the advanced age of 26 might be drug aided. But last week, citing a surprise urine test, the international governing organization for swimmers, FINA, banned De Bruin for four years, effectively ending her career. The tests found no steroids but did detect "unequivocal signs of adulteration" that would mask the drugs, by means of an after-the-fact addition of alcohol, probably whisky. De Bruin, promising "I'm not going to crawl under...