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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Waller's second interception came on another bomb attempt, this time to Michael Coleman. Just when it seemed he wouldn't turn around in time, Waller did and made the play at the Harvard 39-yard line...

Author: By Bryan Lee, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Wilford Shows He Has Strong Legs, Too | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...starts well enough: "The bomb carrier starts to descend and it comes apart and small little bomblets come out and when they hit the ground they will destruct," an Air Force spokesperson at the Pentagon told...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Red and Yellow Terror Pills | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

...case of the cluster bomb, it is their ability to pierce armored vehicles, blow up personnel and otherwise alter the battle plans of an enemy brigade on the move that has made them a vital part of American campaigns in Iraq and more recently in Kosovo...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Red and Yellow Terror Pills | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

Russia may be planning another bloody war in Chechnya, and it wants Washington?s backing. Moscow sent its air force to bomb the airport in the Chechen capital, Grozny, on Thursday, and massed some 13,000 troops on the rebellious state?s border. At the same time, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claimed U.S. support for his efforts, alleging that terrorist financier Osama bin Laden is behind the unrest in the Caucasus and the recent spate of apartment bombings. "The U.S. has expressed support for Russia?s fight against domestic terrorism, but it may find itself in a tight spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Gears Up for a New Chechnya War | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

...talk and speculation has reached fever pitch in Russia, amid the climate of panic generated by the recent apartment bombings. The authorities announced Thursday that police in the southern city of Ryazan had defused a massive bomb in an apartment building after residents reported seeing sacks unloaded from a truck with a covered number plate. But, says Meier, later in the day it emerged that the "bomb" was merely a pile of sacks of sugar. The bombs that are falling in Chechnya, however, are all too real ?- and Moscow may be on the verge of lurching back into its worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Gears Up for a New Chechnya War | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

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