Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reconnaissance probe of Chechen defenses or just a stupid mistake. Up to now, Russian forces have marched across the republic with, they claim, little resistance. Their battle plan called for slow, steady advances until the rebels engaged them. Then they would let their vastly superior artillery and air forces bomb the Chechen fighters and strafe their village hideouts, until they fell back and Russian troops could move safely forward again. Since late September, a Russian force that now numbers 100,000--just about every viable fighting man in the armed forces--has managed to retake control of nearly...
...return as soon as possible; they wouldn't let Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold take away their school. So the district, with the help of 137 contractors who donated some of their services, completed six months of construction in six weeks, replacing bloody carpeting with tiles and rebuilding the bomb-scarred cafeteria. Meanwhile, DeAngelis so effectively convinced students and parents of the school's safety that enrollment rose to 1983 students--18 more than last year...
...Washington's eye, terrorism has supplanted computer failure as the primary Y2K bug. President Clinton urged Americans to be vigilant against possible terrorist attacks. The FBI on Thursday also issued a mail-bomb alert against any unsolicited mail bearing a postmark from Frankfurt, Germany, while a man was arrested in the Bahamas after he tried to flee when questioned about suspicious equipment he was trying to carry aboard a plane. And the specter of a bomb plot by Canada-based Algerian exiles grew Thursday as a Vermont prosecutor presented evidence linking Lucia Garofalo, arrested Sunday trying to cross into...
...panic and making the public more alert," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Of course it's possible that nothing will happen, but there's also obviously a real threat. The guy traveling with Ressam remains at large, and Ressam's travel bookings suggest he was planning to leave the bomb equipment for someone else to assemble." In public and behind the scenes, the stakes are rising in the waiting game between terrorists...
...Adviser Sandy Berger and a State Department travel advistory warning Americans abroad to stay away from crowds. Official concern has been heightened by last week's arrest of 13 suspected terrorists in Jordan and the capture of Algerian Ahmed Ressam at a U.S. border post at the weekend with bomb-making equipment in the trunk of his car. Ressam was indicted Wednesday on charges of attempting to smuggle explosives into the U.S., and pleaded not guilty...