Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...waist of an otherwise charred man. "Big black flies appeared and tried to lay eggs on human flesh," says survivor Michiko Watanabe, now 65. "The injured were so weak that they couldn't brush away the flies that nestled in their hands and necks. Some were black from a blanket of flies that covered them...
...Others said they saw some Muslim men taken to a nearby house where shots may have been fired. Still others claimed they saw bodies piled along the road from Srebrenica to Tuzla. One despairing woman who had safely reached Tuzla hanged herself from a tree with torn strips of blanket...
...advisories to alert parents to inappropriate programming. Says Lynn McReynolds, vice president of media affairs for the National Association of Broadcasters: "The V chip won't be able to tell the difference between Terminator 2 and Schindler's List. We have problems with any technology that makes a blanket judgment about programming...
...presidential panel charged with investigating radiation experiments on human subjects will urge the federal government to compensate some of the subjects of those tests and issue a blanket apology to all involved, according to a published report...
...before it started, declaring that it failed to meet "minimally accepted standards." In Washington, Jesse Helms, head of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, decried the $235 million Clinton has pledged to Haiti for 1995 and said, "It's time for the President and his advisers to stop playing beach-blanket bingo with Aristide." Helms also said that his committee would soon hold hearings examining the "countless irregular activities...