Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cricket is a continuation of war by other means, the tide in Kashmir is turning in India?s favor. Having soundly thrashed Pakistan in their World Cup cricket encounter in England Tuesday, India sent jets to bomb Pakistan-backed infiltrators in Kashmir Wednesday, and began preparing to host Pakistan?s foreign minister for peace talks on Saturday. And it?s not just their triumph in the all-important cricket encounter that?s got India approaching those talks with a measure of confidence. "Pakistan is in a bit of a bind now that the U.S. is putting on pressure for talks...
Although rumors had begun to mount, virtually no one at RCAA expected the bomb that dropped in April 1998, when the Boston Globe reported that Radcliffe's Board of Trustees was in secret merger talks with Harvard...
That question lies at the core of the dire declarations in the report that China has systematically stolen our vital security secrets, pilfering design information on every advanced thermonuclear warhead we deploy, on missile guidance, even on the never fielded neutron bomb, to acquire weapons knowledge "on a par" with the U.S. With "insatiable" appetite and "enormous" energy over decades, Beijing's agents mined valuable military information from every corner of the American military-industrial complex and haven't given up yet. From that time to the present, a permissive, often inept U.S. government let the People's Republic help...
Last week reporters were taken to a Pristina suburb to view the site of a NATO cluster-bomb attack. The bombs had missed the intended target, a welding factory, Serbian officials said, and hit an adjacent Albanian village, destroying 10 homes and injuring seven people. That did appear to be the case; the distinctive craters left by cluster bombs marked a vegetable and herb garden, releasing an incongruous aroma of onions and chives amid the debris. Roofs were shattered, and one bomb had landed in the center of a family's living room. Why bomb here...
...wandered away from the Yugoslav escorts, a little boy recognized a Western accent and ran to get his father. The man waved me inside. In a furtive whisper, speaking in Albanian with a few words of English, he said two Yugoslav tanks had been hidden in the village. Why bomb here? Because military police had been living in the Albanian houses. At night they stood outside those homes and fired rockets at the planes. Showing pictures of his children, the man said his family had left for Macedonia. He would join them soon. In Kosovo you are a potential target...