Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brief resignation had been prompted by three Congress leaders -- subsequently expelled -- echoing this concern. "She has shrewdly used the rebellion in the party to her own advantage," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "It's built up Congress's resistance to the opposition's main line of attack, and has helped her overcome her failure to form a government last month...
DIED. SHEL SILVERSTEIN, 66, children's author, playwright, Playboy cartoonist and Oscar-nominated songwriter; of a heart attack; in Key West, Fla. Silverstein, who served in the Korean War, was best known for writing and illustrating mischievous, charmingly tasteless books of poetry for children (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic)--a career he never intended, even though he sold 14 million books. His quirky poems featured a cast of rogues ranging from the unruly Dancing Pants to the unsanitary Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who "would not take the garbage out"). He also wrote the lyrics to several...
...last time the U.S. mistakenly bombed a foreign mission was in 1986 in Tripoli, as an Air Force F-111 screamed over the darkened Libyan capital. The fiery bomb blasts of another F-111 just ahead forced the second plane's crew off its attack path and sent three 2,000-lb. bombs into the French embassy. When the U.S. bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade on May 7, there once again were two pilots aboard a single plane. It was a B-2 this time. Once again, a trio of 2,000-pounders went astray. But this time...
...William Dowell, is less with its content than its provenance. "Boutros-Ghali was so deeply flawed as a secretary general that his own staff despised him," says Dowell. "His imperiousness had alienated them to the point that they were constantly leaking damaging information to the media." Boutros-Ghali's attack, though, points to a shift in the Clinton administration away from its initial emphasis on building consensus in multilateral forums such as the U.N. "Instead of trying to win international support for U.S. policy, Washington began to simply announce it on a take-it-or-leave-it basis," says Dowell...
...course, would allow her to serve as the party's kingmaker without muddying her sari in the rough-and-tumble of India's governance. And if she does agree to return, Congress will have had an opportunity to test public reaction to the BJP's most damaging line of attack without the outcome of an election being at stake...