Word: aug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aug. 1 STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN...
...current charge against Snoop stems from an incident on Aug. 25. According to the Los Angeles Times, his friend Shawn Abrams allegedly argued with Philip Woldermariam, a probationer who Snoop's lawyer says had threatened the rapper with a gun on an earlier occasion. Police say Abrams, Snoop and his bodyguard McKinley Lee tracked Woldermariam down at a park in West Los Angeles, where Lee shot him. Lee says Woldermariam pointed his gun at a Jeep ; in which Snoop was at the wheel. Authorities say some witnesses claim Woldermariam was unarmed...
American officials now point to this resolution as the moment when the humanitarian mission began to turn into a mini-war against Aidid. But at the time, they thought he posed a serious threat and could be contained most efficiently by military means. As late as Aug. 10, Madeleine Albright, U.S. ambassador to the U.N., wrote that "failure to take action ((against Aidid)) would have signaled to other clan leaders that the U.N. is not serious" and called those who took a contrary view "advocates of appeasement." This view changed in part because Aidid proved much harder to run down...
...AUG. 11: I love my country and everything it stands for. I am in a position that I may have to give my life for my country...
...AUG. 20: I kept waking up all night long. I sleep in the corner of our tent. I must have rolled over and stared at the stars for hours . . . There are a few times in a person's life that really make him or her think. One of those being when you think it might be your time...