Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with brinkmanship is you have to know where the brink is. Although it wants to keep its confrontation with Chechnya limited to air strikes, Moscow is in danger of lurching right back into the quagmire of three years ago. Russia rolled tanks up to the border Tuesday and bombed the rebel republic for the sixth consecutive day, as tens of thousands of refugees poured out of Chechnya. The Kremlin vowed to stamp out the Islamic rebels it holds responsible for a wave of terrorist bomb attacks on apartment buildings throughout Russia, and has accused the Chechen government of aiding...
...evacuate, it doesn't really matter where on these narrow strips of land you live--you're stuck on the same stretch of highway. Some officials now believe that the coastal states may have to toughen their construction standards even more, forcing builders to install hardened bunkers, like aboveground bomb shelters, so residents can stay during a hurricane and take their chances...
...blithely bombed our way into Yugoslavia because the country we needed to bludgeon is of no strategic significance. We did not bomb our way into Indonesia because that country is of immense strategic significance...
...peacekeepers did not bomb their way into Timor as they did in Kosovo. They waited for permission from Jakarta...
...With Britain and the U.S. in disarray, the Soviets might have overrun Germany, Italy and France. The European continent would have fallen to the communists, and the Red Army would have been poised at the English Channel. By this time, the Allies' only recourse would have been the atom bomb...