Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Captain John Anderson flew into Kismayu last December, the door of his C-141 air transport opened to admit a blast of foul air. "It was the smell of rotting flesh," he recalls. Not far from the airstrip was a pile of partly dismembered bodies in a shallow mass grave, victims of a local warlord. In some places, Somalis who at first welcomed the Americans became resentful when they realized that the U.S. would not simply wipe out the warlords who were terrorizing them. At the same time, soldiers found themselves in mortal danger whenever they seemed...
Witnesses said that after an initial smaller explosion, a second explosion blew open a maintenance hole cover with visible flames several feet high. No one was reported injured in the blast...
...been a blast," Zimmerman said. "I haven't done anything really special this year. I'm just in the best swimming shape ever, and I've adjusted to longer pools, so I'm not as tired. Nothing's different...
...blast back to high school and the (can we forget) problems that period of time lent us, see "Pump Up the Volume." It's guaranteed to be a good laugh, if at its own expense...
...working for a Jewish charitable organization in Philadelphia; captured in 1975, she served seven years. She sent a note to Power last week asking for a reunion, and Power has said yes. Stanley Bond is dead. He blew himself up in 1972 while trying to build a bomb to blast himself out of prison...