Word: aug
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...this one is impossible to verify independently. Bosnia's Muslim authorities claim to have details, but Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says he knows nothing of a massacre. In the meantime, one escapee, Semir K., 24, shivered with vivid memory as he poured out this account of the evening of Aug...
...about 8 o'clock in the morning on Aug. 21, the Serbs brought five city buses to Trnopolje. Women and children filled about half of one, and they ordered men to fill the rest. There were some people who wanted to go; others were scared. But we had hope because they told us the buses were under the protection of the United Nations forces in Croatia and were heading for the Croatian border. As we were getting on, my sister-in-law pleaded that she and my 16-year-old nephew be let on too. One of my brothers stayed...
...York State alone, Perot paid about $1 million to hire 80 temporary workers through employment agencies and newspaper advertisements. Earning from $8 to $10 an hour, they crisscrossed New York City beseeching passersby to sign up before the state's Aug. 27th filing deadline. Elsewhere, Perot's bounty has subsidized the remains of his political operation. The Florida campaign, which has shrunk from 38 to 10 outposts, solicits donations through a newsletter. In South Carolina and other states, workers are hawking Perot bumper stickers, baseball caps and T shirts. But none of these offices could stay open without...
DOES GEORGE BUSH BELIEVE IN ANYTHING SO DEEPLY that he would rather lose the election than abandon that principle? To hear the President before the Knights of Columbus on Aug. 5, his opposition to abortion passes the test: "I promise you again today, no matter the political price -- and they tell me in this year that it's enormous -- I am going . . .to stand on my conscience when it comes to matters of life." Since then, and despite the Republican Party's screaming pro-life affirmation of Bush's public stance, the keepers of the faith have winked and nodded...
Fighting continued in Bosnia, and a badly shaken young Muslim man told correspondents in Zagreb that he had survived a massacre of more than 200 Muslims by Serbs on Aug...