Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week in New York City, British, French and Dutch officials sat down with U.N. diplomats to discuss the new plan. It does include assisting peacekeepers in danger and facilitating freer movement on Bosnia's roads. But, says a U.N. official who attended the meetings, they "are not going to blast their way through anything." They can fire back if fired upon, but they must not take sides. A Western diplomat who participated summed up the basic truth: "None of these countries wants to go to war on behalf of the Bosnian government...
...brrrr. They aren't so sure it's cool, just as they aren't so sure it's cool when they come across the more stomach-turning specimens of pop music in their kids' CD collections. That's why, when Bob Dole went to Los Angeles last week to blast the entertainment industry, he touched a chord that transcended the party politics his remarks were shrewdly crafted to serve. Though popular culture has a long and proud history of offending the squares, during the current decade it has particularly kept its sharpest edges to the front. Whatever is scabrous...
...have some feeling that the CCA is going tohave a tough time winning this campaign," Duehaysays. "It could really blast out the followingcampaign...
Federal prosecutors ran into an unexpected obstacle in their case against James Nichols (the brother of Terry Nichols, who has been charged in the Oklahoma City bombing). Authorities believe James Nichols may know a lot about the April 19 blast, and they had been holding him in jail on unrelated explosive charges in Michigan. But a federal judge expressed skepticism about the soundness of those charges and, finding that he posed little threat or risk of flight, released him into the custody of neighbors, pending trial. Meanwhile, in Oklahoma City, officials demolished the remains of the bombed-out federal building...
...York Times reported that Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh admitted to two people who talked to him in jail that he was responsible for the blast, but McVeigh's lawyer disputed the report. The newspaper also reported that Michael Fortier, a friend of McVeigh's, told federal prosecutors that the two men inspected the Oklahoma City building several days before the blast...